recuperate

English

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin recuperō, recuperātus, a late form of reciperō (“to get again, regain, recover”). Doublet of recover.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈk(j)uːpəˌɹeɪt/

Verb

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

• Finnish: toipua (fi), parantua (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: whakamāui
• 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”, in 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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

(deprecated template usage) recuperāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of recuperō