ressuscitação

Forms

ressuscitação f (plural ressuscitações)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin resuscitatio (“a raising again from the dead”), recorded in the 15th century as Old Galician-Portuguese resuscitaçom.^[2][3][4][5] The Latin noun belongs to Church Latin, where Tertullian uses it, and is derived from resuscito (“to revive”) with the suffix -tio.^[6][1] Wiktionary and Michaelis instead analyse the Portuguese word as ressuscitar with the suffix -ção, and DELPo compares the medical use with the English word resuscitation.^[1][7][8]

That verb is older, recorded from the 13th century, and comes from the Latin verb of the noun.^[9][3] Spanish resucitación has the same Late Latin source.^[10]

Earliest recorded meaning

In its first record, of the 15th century, the word means the same as ressuscitamento, the raising of the dead to life, the sense of its Church Latin source.^[2][6]

Semantic evolution

The old Caldas Aulete gives, beside “resurrection”, the figurative sense “restoration, renewal”, and the DLP the reappearance of something that seemed extinct.^[11][4] The modern medical sense, the set of manual and mechanical procedures that bring back to life or consciousness a person who seems dead, is the one Aurélio places first.^[12][5]

Timeline

• 13th century – the verb ressuscitar is first recorded.^[9][3]
• 14th century – the synonym ressuscitamento is recorded, spelt rresuçitamẽto.^[3]
• 15th century – first record of the noun, spelt resuscitaçom.^[2][3]

Meanings

Noun

1. resurrection, the return from death to life; ressurreição.^[2][4][13]
2. (figurative) revival: the reappearance or renewal of something that seemed extinct.^[4][5]
3. (medicine) resuscitation: the procedures that restore the vital functions or consciousness of a person apparently dead.^[12][11][1]

Related words

• ressuscitar
• ressuscitamento
• Latin resuscitatio

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. ressuscitação
3. ^ a b c d e Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2010), Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa, 4th ed., Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon, p. s.v. ressuscitar
4. ^ a b c d Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, revised online edition (2023–) of the Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea (2001), https://dicionario.acad-ciencias.pt, p. s.v. ressuscitação
5. ^ a b c Porto Editora (2013), Grande Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, Porto: Porto Editora, p. 8055
6. ^ a b Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. s.v. resuscitatio
7. ^ Michaelis: Moderno Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, São Paulo: Melhoramentos (online as Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa, https://michaelis.uol.com.br), p. s.v. ressuscitação
8. ^ NEHiLP – Núcleo de Apoio à Pesquisa em Etimologia e História da Língua Portuguesa, Universidade de São Paulo, DELPo: Dicionário Etimológico da Língua Portuguesa (online database), p. s.v. ressuscitação
9. ^ a b Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. ressuscitar
10. ^ 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. resucitación
11. ^ a b Aulete, Francisco Júlio Caldas, Dicionário contemporâneo da língua portuguesa (1st ed. 1881), online as Aulete Digital, Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon, https://aulete.com.br, p. s.v. ressuscitação
12. ^ a b Ferreira, Aurélio Buarque de Holanda, Novo dicionário Aurélio da língua portuguesa, digital edition, p. s.v. ressuscitação
13. ^ Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa, Lisboa: Priberam Informática, https://dicionario.priberam.org, p. s.v. ressuscitação