Where does “recover” come from?
Recover comes from Old French recovrer, from Latin recuperare, combining the prefix re- meaning "again" with a root ultimately from Latin com meaning "with."
recover (English): To get back, to regain; to salvage, to extricate,...
Definitions
- To get back, to regain; to salvage, to extricate,...
Ancestry of “recover”, step by step
recover traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English cover
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | cover | A lid; Area or situation which screens a person... |
| 2 | Middle English | coveren | to recover |
| 3 | Old French | covrir | to cover |
| 4 | Latin | cooperiō | to cover wholly or over, overwhelm, clothe |
| 5 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 6 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 7 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 11 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 12 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 13 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 14 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via Middle English recoveren
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | recoveren | To get back; to recover possession or use of; To... |
| 2 | Old French | recovrer | to recover; to reobtain |
| 3 | Latin | recuperō | — |
| 4 | Latin | recipero | I get again, regain, recover; I revive, restore |
| 5 | Latin | recipiō | to take back, (i.e., regain possession of something) |
| 6 | Latin | capiō | to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |