recapitulate

From Late Latin recapitulātus, past participle of recapitulāre (“to go over the main points of a thing again”), from re- (“again”) +‎ capitulum (“head, main part, chapter”), from caput (“head”) +‎ -ulum (diminutive suffix); see capitulate.

• (Canada, UK) IPA^(key): /ɹiːkəˈpɪtʃʊleɪt/

recapitulate (third-person singular simple present recapitulates, present participle recapitulating, simple past and past participle recapitulated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To summarize or repeat in concise form.

   The entire symphony was recapitulated in the last four bars.

   We still have five minutes left, so let's recapitulate the lecture.

2. (transitive) To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function).
3. (transitive) (biology, of an organism) To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.
   • 1997 May, G. A. Bray, “Growth of a Molecular Base for Feeding”, in Obesity Research, volume 5, number 3, page 272:

     Similarly this concept of unity provided a powerful impetus for embryological studies and the idea that fetal development recapitulates the steps of phylogenetic development.

• (to summarize or repeat in concise form): recap, sum up

• capitulate

• “recapitulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “recapitulate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “recapitulate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• catapleurite

recapitulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of recapitulō

recapitulate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of recapitular combined with te