resalir

Forms

resalir (first-person singular present resalgo, first-person singular preterite resalí, past participle resalido)^[1]

Etymology

Alemany and Wikcionario explain it as formed from Spanish re- + salir.^[2][3] Wiktionary instead takes it as inherited from Vulgar Latin *resalīre, from re- and saliō (“to leap, spring forth”), akin to classical resiliō.^[1] The DLE gives no etymology.^[4] Portuguese ressair (“to go out again; to stand out”) is formed in the same way.^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

The Old Spanish Textual Archive records the verb once, in the Spanish Fiammetta printed at Salamanca in 1497.^[6] The earliest hit in the CDH, in the Becerro de las behetrías (c. 1352), is the place name Resales, not the verb.^[7] Saavedra Fajardo (1613–1640) describes the four main winds shown resalidos, standing out, at the corners of a circle.^[7]

Semantic evolution

In 1663 Francisco Santos writes of a voice that resalía de todos, rising above all the others.^[7] The Diccionario de Autoridades defined it as “to stand out in buildings or other things”, and Terreros as the projecting of a part of a building.^[8][9] From 1843 the Academy has labelled it a term of architecture, the same as resaltar.^[10][11][4] Alemany added in 1917 the sense “to be clearly heard”.^[2] Cavanilles in 1797 used the participle for rocks jutting out over a ravine.^[7]

Timeline

• 1497 – the Spanish Fiammetta.^[6]
• 1613–1640 – Saavedra Fajardo has resalidos.^[7]
• 1663 – Francisco Santos: a voice resalía de todos.^[7]
• 1726–1739 – the Diccionario de Autoridades defines it.^[8]
• 1797 – Cavanilles writes of peñas resalidas.^[7]
• 1843 – the Academy labels it a term of architecture.^[10]

Meanings

Verb

1. (architecture, intransitive) To project or jut out from the rest of a building; resaltar.^[4][12][1]

Related words

• salir
• resaltar
• sobresalir
• Portuguese ressair

Usage notes

In Judeo-Spanish resalir means “to result, amount to”.^[13]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Alemany y Bolufer, José (1917), Diccionario de la lengua española, Barcelona: Ramón Sopena, p. 1447
3. ^ Wikcionario (Spanish Wiktionary), es.wiktionary.org, p. s.v. resalir
4. ^ a b c Real Academia Española; Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2014–), Diccionario de la lengua española, 23rd ed., online version 23.8, https://dle.rae.es, p. s.v. resalir
5. ^ Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. ressair
6. ^ a b Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (2026), Old Spanish Textual Archive (OSTA): semi-paleographic transcriptions of Old Spanish texts, ed. Francisco Gago Jover et al., https://www.hispanicseminary.org
7. ^ a b c d e f g Real Academia Española (2013–), Corpus del Diccionario histórico de la lengua española (CDH), version 3.1, https://apps.rae.es/CNDHE, p. s.v. resalir
8. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1726–1739), Diccionario de la lengua castellana (Diccionario de Autoridades), 6 vols., Madrid: Francisco del Hierro, p. 5, 590
9. ^ Terreros y Pando, Esteban de (1786–1793), Diccionario castellano con las voces de ciencias y artes y sus correspondientes de las tres lenguas francesa, latina e italiana, 4 vols., Madrid: Viuda de Ibarra, p. 3, 353
10. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1843), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 9th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de D. Francisco María Fernández, p. 631
11. ^ Real Academia Española (1884), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 12th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de D. Gregorio Hernando (the first Academy edition with etymologies), p. 925
12. ^ Moliner, María (2007), Diccionario de uso del español, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. resalir
13. ^ Nehama, Joseph (1977), Dictionnaire du judéo-espagnol, Madrid: CSIC, p. s.v. resalir