recuperar

Borrowed from Latin recuperāre, from earlier reciperāre. Doublet of recobrar, which was inherited.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rə.ku.pəˈɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [re.ku.peˈɾaɾ]

recuperar (first-person singular present recupero, first-person singular preterite recuperí, past participle recuperat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (intransitive) to recover, recuperate
   • 2009, Jean Grave, Les Aventures d'en Nono:

     Finalment, quand tots van haver reposat i recuperat

     Finally, when everyone had rested and recuperated

• recuperació

• “recuperar”, 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
• “recuperar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “recuperar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “recuperar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Learned borrowing from Latin recuperāre, from earlier reciperāre. Doublet of recobrar, which was inherited.

recuperar (first-person singular present recupero, first-person singular preterite recuperei, past participle recuperado)

1. (intransitive) to recover, recuperate

   Synonym: sandar

• recuperación

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

Borrowed from Latin recuperāre, from earlier reciperāre. Doublet of recobrar, which was inherited.

• Hyphenation: re‧cu‧pe‧rar

recuperar (first-person singular present recupero, first-person singular preterite recuperei, past participle recuperado)

1. (transitive) to recover
2. (transitive) to restore, renovate (bring back to a previous condition, e.g. a building or painting)

   Synonym: restaurar

• recuperação

• “recuperar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “recuperar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “recuperar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “recuperar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “recuperar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “recuperar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Latin recuperāre, from earlier reciperāre. Doublet of recobrar, which was inherited.

• IPA^(key): /rekupeˈɾaɾ/ [re.ku.peˈɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧cu‧pe‧rar

recuperar (first-person singular present recupero, first-person singular preterite recuperé, past participle recuperado)

1. (transitive) to recover
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 15:

     En Chile […] existió la costumbre de enterrar dinero y joyas de valor, con el objeto de ponerlos a cubierto de la rapacidad de los vencedores. Por diversas causas, muchos de esos entierros […] no fueron recuperados por sus dueños, y ahí se quedaron, aguardando al que tuviera la fortuna de encontrarlos.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (reflexive) to recuperate

• “recuperar”, 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