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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Ovid|origins=la sūmō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [rɛˈsuː.moː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [reˈs̬uː.mo]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''resūmō''' (present infinitive resūmere, perfect active resūmpsī, supine resūmptum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[re-]] and [[sūmō]] “to take up”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Ovid, of picking something up again and of recovering strength.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Ovid 43 BC–18 AD.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to pick up again something dropped, and to regain strength or a faculty, as in Ovid, and in Tacitus to take up a course of action again, resume.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ Through Old French ''resumer'' it gave [[en|resume]] about 1400, first “to take back possession”, and French ''résumé'' “summary” gave [[en|résumé]] in 1804.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of resuming an action.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 1400 – English ''resume'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To take up again.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To recover, regain.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To begin again, [[m|en|resume]].^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[resumptio]]
+ * [[resumptiuus]]
+ * [[resumptorius]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[sūmō]]
+ * [[cōnsūmō]]
+ * [[assūmō]]
+ * [[en|resume]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}