English
resile
Resile comes from Latin resiliō ‘spring back’, and goes back to saliō ‘to jump’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsaliō‘to jump’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEresiliō‘spring back’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600resiler
- Englishearliest quotation 2007resile
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsaliō‘to jump’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEresiliō‘spring back’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600resiler
- Englishearliest quotation 2007resile
Earliest quotation: 2007, David Pollard et al., Constitutional and Administrative Law: Text with Materials: “If a legitimate expectation is established, it must be…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *sel- ‘jump, spring’
sale, savage, insult, salon, salvage, exile, silva, salle, sylvan, somersault, sill, slink, selva, seel, selly, 18 more
through Latin saliō ‘to jump’
salt, sauce, salad, salmon, sally, salient, sauté, salacious, salience, exultant, 29 more
through Latin resiliō ‘spring back’
Today it means
verb To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin saliō / resile