English
resistant
Resistant comes from French résistant.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentrésistant
- Englishearliest quotation 1975resistant
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentrésistant
- Englishearliest quotation 1975resistant
Earliest quotation: 1975, Daniel McMahon, C. Fred Fox: “[…] suggests the dauerlarva is resistant because of non-feeding…”
Formed from resist + -ant
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- ‘stand’
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Latin sistō ‘cause to stand’
Latin resistere
Middle French resister ‘to resist’
Middle English resisten ‘to resist’
English resist
Every English word from French résistant
Today it means
noun A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French résistant / resistant