recobrar

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin recupero, recuperare. Doublet of recuperar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [rə.kuˈβɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [rə.koˈbɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [re.koˈbɾaɾ]

Verb

recobrar (first-person singular present recobro, first-person singular preterite recobrí, past participle recobrat)

1. (transitive) to recover, to retrieve, to regain
2. (reflexive) to recover (to get better, regain one's health)

Further reading

• “recobrar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “recobrar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “recobrar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “recobrar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

---

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese recobrar, from Latin recupero, recuperare. Compare Spanish recobrar, Portuguese cobrar. Doublet of recuperar.

Verb

1. to recover, regain, retrieve
2. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of recobrar
3. first/third-person singular personal infinitive of recobrar

Further reading

• “recobrar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

---

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish recobrar, from Latin recuperāre, present active infinitive of recuperō. Doublet of recuperar, a borrowing.

Verb

1. to recover, regain

Further reading

• “recobrar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014