recuperate
English
Etymology
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
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 […]
- 2002, Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook, Ben Saunders, Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture
Derived terms
- recuperation
Translations
recover, especially from an illness — see recover
recover from illness
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Further reading
- recuperate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- recuperate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- recuperate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Italian
Verb
recuperate
- second-person plural present indicative of recuperare
- second-person plural imperative of recuperare
- feminine plural of recuperato
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /re.ku.peˈraː.te/, [rɛ.kʊ.pɛˈraː.tɛ]
Verb
recuperāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of recuperō