recuperate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recuperāre, a late form of reciperāre (“get again, regain, recover”). Doublet of recover and recoup.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈk(j)uːpəˌɹeɪt/

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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
   • 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

• recuperation

Translations

recover, especially from an illness — see recover

recover from illness

• Bulgarian: възстановявам се (vǎzstanovjavam se)
• Finnish: toipua (fi), parantua (fi)
• Maori: whakamāui
• Middle English: warysshen
• Polish: zdrowieć (pl) impf, wyzdrowieć (pl) pf

Further reading

• “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

Etymology 1

Verb

recuperate

1. inflection of recuperare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

recuperate f pl

1. feminine plural of recuperato

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re.ku.peˈraː.te/, [rɛkʊpɛˈräːt̪ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re.ku.peˈra.te/, [rekupeˈräːt̪e]

Verb

recuperāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of recuperō

Spanish

Verb

recuperate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of recuperar combined with te