recuperate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin recuperāre, a late form of reciperāre (“get again, regain, recover”). Doublet of recover and recoup.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
recuperate (third-person singular simple present recuperates, present participle recuperating, simple past and past participle recuperated)
- To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness.
- (sociology) To co-opt subversive ideas for mainstream use
- 2002, Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook, Ben Saunders, Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture:
- […] there is also the danger […] that such a critique recuperates gender in terms that quite literally invisiblize the very issues of race and ethnicity […]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
recover, especially from an illness — see recover
recover from illness
Further reading[edit]
- “recuperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “recuperate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- recuperate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Italian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
recuperate
- inflection of recuperare:
Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
recuperate f pl
Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /re.ku.peˈraː.te/, [rɛkʊpɛˈräːt̪ɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /re.ku.peˈra.te/, [rekupeˈräːt̪e]
Verb[edit]
recuperāte
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
recuperate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of recuperar combined with te
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