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)
- 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 […]
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Related terms
Translations
recover, especially from an illness — see recover
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, →OCLC.
- recuperate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Italian
Verb
recuperate
- inflection of recuperare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /re.ku.peˈraː.te/, [rɛkʊpɛˈräːt̪ɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /re.ku.peˈra.te/, [rekupeˈräːt̪e]
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