Translation
summary
Word origin
From French résumé, the past participle of résumer, from Latin resumere, to take up again, built from re- and sumere, to take. The summary is what you pick back up after putting the long version down.
- Origin
- Latin, via French
- Root
- resumere
- English cognates
- resume, assume, consume
Examples
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She wrote a short summary of the book.
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Give me a summary of the meeting.
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The summary is clearer than the whole report.
This is the most seductive false seam in the band, because both halves are live
Esperanto morphemes. - is the prefix of repetition, is a
sum, and adding it up again is a wonderfully
plausible account of what a summary is. It is still wrong.
The Latin gives it away. e is - plus e, to take, and
e is not the same word as summa, the top or total that gave us
sumo. Two different roots, sitting next to each other
in the dictionary and never once related. arrived in Esperanto whole
from French, with its seam already sealed, and the fact that you can prise it
open into two real Esperanto pieces is a coincidence of sound.
Keep the near miss in mind, because it is the honest lesson of the affix system: a parse that produces the right meaning is not thereby the right parse. The test is history, not plausibility.
The verb is i, to summarise, and e is the adverb, the tidy way
to open a closing paragraph: e, .
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