- resume (v.)
- c.1400, from Latin resumere "take again, assume again," from re- "again" (see re-) + sumere "take up" (cf. assume).
- resume (n.)
- 1804, "a summary," from French résumé, noun use of past participle of Middle French resumer "to sum up," from Latin resumere (see resume (v.)). Meaning "biographical summary of a person's career" is 1940s.