Where does “recovery” come from?
Recovery comes from Middle English recoveree, from Old French recovree and recovrer, from Latin recuperare meaning to regain or restore.
recovery (English): The act or process of regaining or repossession...
Definitions
- The act or process of regaining or repossession...
Ancestry of “recovery”, step by step
recovery traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English recover
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | recover | To get back, to regain; to salvage, to extricate,... |
| 2 | English | cover | A lid; Area or situation which screens a person... |
| 3 | Middle English | coveren | to recover |
| 4 | Old French | covrir | to cover |
| 5 | Latin | cooperiō | to cover wholly or over, overwhelm, clothe |
| 6 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 7 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 8 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |