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Resource is borrowed from Middle French ressource, from Old French resourse ‘a spring’, from resourdre, from Latin resurgō ‘to rise again’.

1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsurgō¹‘to rise’
2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEresurgō²‘to rise again’
3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400resourdre²
4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400resourse²‘a source, spring’
5. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600ressource²
6. Englishearliest quotation 1918resource²

1. ¹ Wiktionary, Latin resurgo
2. ² Wiktionary, English resource
3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1918, William Babington Maxwell, Indianapolis: “This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on…”.