resumir

/resuˈmiɾ/ · B2 · verb

to summarize

📝 re- (again) + sumir (take up) = take it up again, briefly: to summarize

Resumir comes from Latin resumere, 're-' (again) + 'sumere' (to take). To summarize is to take up the main points again in shorter form. Think of the English 'resume' and 'consume', which share the same 'sume' root.

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