recuperate

English

Etymology

From Latin recuperātus, from recuperāre (“to get again, regain, recover, revive, restore, Medieval Latin also intransitive revive, convalesce, recover”), present active infinitive of recuperō.

Verb

recuperate (third-person singular simple present recuperates, present participle recuperating, simple past and past participle recuperated)

1. To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
2. (sociology) To co-opt subversive ideas for mainstream use

Derived terms

• recuperation

Translations

to recover, especially from an illness

Czech: zotavit se Dutch: beter worden, herstellen, genezen Finnish: parantua, palautua, tervehtyä Indonesian: sembuh, sembuh kembali

Korean: 회복하다 (ko) Scottish Gaelic: slànaich (gd) Spanish: recuperar (es) Turkish: İyileşmek

External links

• recuperate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• recuperate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• recuperate at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Italian

Verb

recuperate

1. second-person plural present indicative of recuperare
2. second-person plural imperative of recuperare
3. Feminine plural of recuperato

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Latin

Verb

recuperāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of recuperō