What is the Latin word for recover?

The usual Latin words for “recover” are recipiō, recolligō, reficiō; also recreō, ēmergō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

English → Latin

“recover” in Latin

recipiōto take back, (i.e., regain possession of something); to recapture; to receive, accept, admit recolligōto recover, gather again, collect; to pull oneself together, get ahold of oneself reficiōto make again, make anew; remake, renew, rebuild, reconstruct; to restore, repair, fix, refit; to reappoint, re-elect recreōto create again or anew, restore, recreate; to revive, refresh, invigorate ēmergōto emerge (from the water); to surface; to arise or come forth

The English word recover itself goes back to Latin capiō, through recupero.

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

recover

Transitively, recuperare: recipere: redipisci (Plaut.). To recover my strength, vires et corpus revocare (Cic., Fam., 7, 26): one’s liberty, libertatem recuperare: to recover losses, damnum or detrimentum sarcire, resarcire; detrimentum reconciliare; jacturam rei familiaris resarcire, restituere; lacunam rei familiaris explere: to recover one’s influence, wealth, etc., auctoritatem, opes recuperare: to recover one’s sight, oculi restituuntur: to recover costs and damages, litem cum impensis obtinere.

Intransitively, se reficere: se recreare or recolligere; refici, recreari (to recover one’s self from toil, sickness, etc.): se or animum colligere, or recipere, with or without ex (a) pavore; se recreare ex timore; respirare a metu; respirare et se recipere; ad se redire (to recover from alarm, etc.): se or animum erigere (from dejection of spirits): se emergere, or emergere, from anything, (ex) aliqua re (to recover from some overwhelming evil; incommoda valetudine, aere alieno): To recover one’s health, convalescere: sanescere sanitatem recipere or recuperare (☞ reconvalescere is not Latin): to recover from a disease or sickness, convalescere e morbo; morbum (e.g., quartanam) passum convalescere viresque integras recuperare; recreari e or a morbo: evadere e morbo (to rise): salubriorem esse incipere (said of the disease; the others of the person): sanum fieri e morbo: from a tedious and dangerous sickness, ex longinquitate gravissimi morbi revocari; a longa valetudine se recolligere: to recover from the effects of a wound, convalescere de vulnere (†): the patient has recovered, aegrotus e morbo evasit (Cic.): a person begins to recover, melius alicui fit.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for recover?: The usual Latin words for “recover” are recipiō, recolligō, reficiō; also recreō, ēmergō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.