RESILIENCE AND "RESILIENCIA"

 

Resilience comes from the Latin "resiliens" and it  is "the act of rebounding or springing back" (elasticity, the power of returning to original shape), also "the ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyancy." In 2022 The Diccionario de la Real Academia Española (DRAE) admitted the word from the English, defining it as "Capacidad de adaptación de un ser vivo frente a un agent perturbador o un estado o situación adversos." 

This is a case where Spanish adopts a new word from Latin through English. It still has no widespread use in Spanish, although Ramón Tamames, the economist, employed it in 1992 in his book Curso de economía. The average Spanish speaker ignores the term which is of general use among speakers of English.