## Etymology
From resilient + -cy, from Latin resiliens, present participle of resilire ('to leap back, rebound'), from re- ('back') + salire ('to leap').

## AI Etymology
Resiliency comes from resilient + -cy, from Latin resiliens, present participle of resilire ('to leap back, rebound'), from re- ('back') + salire ('to leap'). The historical chain includes Latin resilire, Latin salire, and Proto-Indo-European *sel-. The quoted older senses, "to leap back, rebound", "back", and "to leap", supply the semantic anchors for resiliency. The formation is best read as suffixal, compound, participial, and borrowed: the word resiliency carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "the ability to recover quickly from difficulty". Related English forms include resilient, resile, and salient. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

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