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"summary" in seven languages

Meaningsummary

Spanish

resumen

/reˈsumen/

masc.learned

From resumir 'to sum up'.

French

résumé

/ʁezyme/

masc.learned

Participle of résumer used as a noun.

Italian

riassunto

/riasˈsunto/

masc.other source · riassumere, from Latin RE- + ASSŪMERE 'to take up'

Portuguese

resumo

/heˈzumu/

masc.learned

Romanian

rezumat

/rezuˈmat/

neut.borrowed · rezuma, from French résumer

Catalan

resum

/rəˈzum/

masc.learned

English

summary

/ˈsʌməɹi/

other source · Latin SUMMĀRIUM 'an abstract'

English → ItaliansummaryriassuntoNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: resume, résumé.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

RESŪMERE‘to take up again’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

A French résumé is a summary, not a CV (that is un CV). Spanish resumen and French résumé 'take up again' the main points; Italian riassunto is built the same way on ASSŪMERE.

English relatives: resume, résumé

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In a sentence

  • esEscribe un breve resumen del texto.
  • frÉcris un court résumé du texte.
  • itScrivi un breve riassunto del testo.
  • ptEscreva um breve resumo do texto.
  • roScrie un scurt rezumat al textului.
  • caEscriu un breu resum del text.
  • enWrite a short summary of the text.

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