recuperare

Forms

recuperare f (plural recuperări)^[1] The first record has the old form recupărare: „spre ținerea și recupărarea sănătății” “for keeping and recovering health”.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is the long infinitive, formed from Romanian recupera + -re.^[3][4][5][1] The verb recupera is from French récupérer, with Latin recuperō (“to regain”) as a second model.^[4][3][6] The noun is recorded long before the verb: MDA2 dates the noun to 1821 but the verb only to 1906.^[3] Pontbriant marked the noun as Latin in 1862.^[7]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2's first record is Vasilie Popp's treatise of 1821 on the mineral waters of Arpătac, Bodoc and Covasna, which speaks of keeping and regaining health.^[3][2]

Semantic evolution

The first sense was regaining something lost: Ghica wrote of the recovery of autonomy, Iorga of Cantemir's expeditions to win back what had been plundered, and Oțetea of a lawsuit to recover a confiscated estate.^[2] In the 19th-century dictionaries it renders French récupération and recouvrement.^[7][8] A technical sense came later: using wholly or in part energy, scraps or waste materials that would otherwise be lost, and by extension using something again.^[2][9][5]

Timeline

• 1821 – recupărare in Vasilie Popp's treatise, the first record.^[3][2]
• 1862 – recuperare in Pontbriant's dictionary.^[7]
• 1875 – Antonescu's dictionary, with French récupération.^[8]
• 1906 – the verb recupera in Alexi's dictionary.^[3]

Meanings

Noun

1. The act of recovering something and its result; regaining, recovery.^[4][3]
2. (technology) The use, in whole or in part, of energy, scraps or waste materials that would otherwise be lost.^[3][5]
3. By extension, using something again; reuse.^[3]

Related words

• recupera
• Latin recuperō

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. recuperare
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 672
4. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 931
5. ^ a b c Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. recuperare
6. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. recupera
7. ^ a b c Pontbriant, Raoul de (1862), Dictiunaru romano-francesu, Bucuresci: A. Ulrich / Göttingen: Dieterich, p. 615
8. ^ a b Antonescu, G. M. (1875), Dictionariu romanu-francesu, Bucuresci: Typografia Curții (Lucrători Associați), p. 260
9. ^ Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 3, 704