English
recapitulative
From recapitulate + -ive.
Formed from recapitulate + -ive
Proto-Indo-European *kap- ‘head’
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Latin caput ‘head’
Latin capitulum ‘head, main part, chapter’
Late Latin recapitulāre ‘to go over the main points of a thing again’
Late Latin recapitulātus
English recapitulate
Today it means
adj Pertaining to, or characterized by recapitulation.
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Etymograph / recapitulative