Etymology

recuperate

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Today it means: To recover, especially from an illness; to get better from an illness or from exhaustion (or sometimes from a financial loss, etc). Full definition →

Latin recuperāre
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromrecuperāre
  2. English todayrecuperate

Borrowed from Latin recuperāre, alternative form of reciperāre (“get again, regain, recover”). Doublet of recover. The pronunciation without /j/ may have been influenced by the semantically similar, but etymologically distinct verb recoup.

Words from the same roots

Latinrecuperāre all →

recover

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