Other forms: recuperating, recuperated, recuperates
To recuperate is to get your strength back after illness. Recuperate at home, time to recuperate, still recuperating.
It is about the process rather than the moment, so somebody recuperates for weeks after recovering from the illness itself. In business it also means to recoup a loss, and recover is a doublet of the same Latin word.
1verbrecuperateTo get your strength back after illness.
“He spent two weeks by the sea to recuperate after his operation.”
recuperate is a recovering.
The Latin is to get back again, the same getting back in recover. To recuperate is to get your strength back after the illness has gone.
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Latin recuperare means to get back, and recover is a doublet of the same word.
Proto-Indo-European
*keh₂p-
Latin
recupero
English, today
recuperate
Built from
Borrowed from Latin recupero, alternative form of recipero (“get again, regain, recover”). a doublet of recover. The pronunciation without /j/ may have been influenced by the semantically similar, but etymologically distinct verb recoup.
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