recuperable
See also: récupérable
English
Etymology
From Middle English recuperable, from Medieval Latin recuperābilis and Old French recuperable.
Adjective
recuperable (comparative more recuperable, superlative most recuperable)
- recoverable
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, “The seconde and thirde decay of lernyng amonge gentilmen”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC, 1st book, page 59:
- Therfore, if thou yet by counsaile arte recuperable, / Flee thou from idlenesse and alway be stable.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for recuperable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Spanish
Further reading
- “recuperable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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