Resilience, Resilient

Picture The words resilience and resilient have their origins in Latin salire (to leap) and Sanskrit sisarsi or sisrate (to flow, to run, to hurry). These ancient words are believed to have a common but unknown root in Proto-Indo-European (PIE).
 
Latin salire is the source of punctum saliens (the sense of the leaping heart of an embroyo). In the 1670s, this term was translated to English as ‘salient point’—a starting point or jumping off point. The military meaning of salient as a ‘pointing outward’ is from the 1680s.
 
Latin salire came to English in the 1560s as salient (leaping). Salient, meaning prominent or striking, is from 1840.
 
The word resilience (the act of rebounding or spring back), from the 1620s, is from Latin resilire (to rebound, recoil), from Latin re- (back) + salire. The scientific use of the word resilience related to the behavior of material returning to an original shape following the release of compression is from the 1670s. Resilience, meaning elasticity, is from 1824. Resilience, meaning the power of recovery, is from 1857.
 
The word resilient (springing back, returning to the original position), from the 1640s, is from Latin resilientum (inclined to leap or spring back) and resilire.
 
The word resiliency (resilience; tendency to rebound) is from the 1660s.
 
The verb ‘to result’, from Latin resultare (to result, to spring forward, rebound) is also related to Latin salire and resilire (e.g., “This discussion could result in a satisfactory outcome”).
 
Contemporary uses of the words resilience and resilient related to human behavior are from the 19th century. The figurative sense of resilient as persons ‘bouncing back’ from difficulties is from the 1830s. The first research on ‘psychological’ resilience is from the early 1970s. 
 
Resilience and results are related. Could we say that results are the result of resilience!
 
Reference: Online Etymological Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com/
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Published on March 25, 2023 11:41
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