resumptio

Forms

resūmptiō, resūmptiōnis f; third declension^[1][2]

Etymology

It is from Latin resūmō (“to take up again”) + -tiō.^[1][3][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Caelius Aurelianus, in the 5th century AD, has it for the recovery of a sick person.^[4][1][2]

Semantic evolution

Julius Rufinianus and the poem on figures of speech use it as the name of a rhetorical figure, the emphatic repetition of a word or idea, the Greek epanalepsis.^[1][2]

Medieval Latin in Britain used it for eating food again (in Adelard of Bath), for taking something up again, and at Oxford for the resumption of lectures after a vacation.^[5] English resumption (mid-15th century) was first a feudal term for the king's taking back of lands and goods granted earlier, from Old French and directly from Medieval Latin.^[6]

Timeline

• 5th century AD – Caelius Aurelianus uses it for a patient's recovery.^[4][2]
• c. 1350 – The Oxford statutes use it for the resumption of lectures.^[5]
• mid-15th century – English borrows it as resumption, of lands taken back by the crown.^[6]

Meanings

Noun

1. (Late Latin) Recovery, convalescence.^[4][1][3][7]
2. (Late Latin, rhetoric) The emphatic repetition of a word or thought, epanalepsis.^[1][2]
3. (Medieval Latin) A taking up again, resumption; the recommencement of lectures.^[5]
4. (Medieval Latin) Repeated eating of food.^[5]

Related words

• English resumption

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
2. ^ a b c d e Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
3. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
4. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
5. ^ a b c d Latham, R. E., D. R. Howlett, R. K. Ashdowne, et al. (1975–2013), Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: British Academy / Oxford University Press
6. ^ a b Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
7. ^ Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier