recobrar

Inherited from Latin recuperāre. Doublet of recuperar, which was borrowed.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [rə.kuˈβɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [rə.koˈbɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [re.koˈbɾaɾ]

recobrar (first-person singular present recobro, first-person singular preterite recobrí, past participle recobrat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (transitive) to recover, to retrieve, to regain
2. (reflexive) to recover (to get better, regain one's health)

• “recobrar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “recobrar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “recobrar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “recobrar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Latin recuperāre. Doublet of recuperar, which was borrowed. Compare Spanish recobrar, Portuguese cobrar. Attested since the 13th century.

• IPA^(key): [rekoˈβɾaɾ]

recobrar (first-person singular present recobro, first-person singular preterite recobrei, past participle recobrado)

1. to recover, regain, restore
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 640:

     Et oiemais sõo tornado pobre et catiuo et desconsellado, sen asperança de nũca seer mais ledo, nẽ rrecobrar ia mais.

     And henceforth I've become poor and small and deprived of advice, with no hope to be happy ever again, nor to recover never more

• cobrar
• recobrazón
• recobramento

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “recobrar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “recobr”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “recobrar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “recobrar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• “recobrar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “recobrar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Inherited from Old Spanish recobrar, from Latin recuperāre. Doublet of recuperar, a borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /rekoˈbɾaɾ/ [re.koˈβ̞ɾaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧co‧brar

recobrar (first-person singular present recobro, first-person singular preterite recobré, past participle recobrado)

1. (transitive) to recover, regain
2. (reflexive) to recuperate

   Synonym: recuperar

• “recobrar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024