cobrar

From apheresis of recobrar, from Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin recuperāre, present active infinitive of recuperō (“I regain; I recover”)[1]. Doublet of recuperar, a borrowing.

cobrar (first-person singular present cobro, past participle cobrat)

1. to charge (money)
2. to collect, to receive (payment)
3. to earn, to be paid

• recobrar

From apheresis of recobrar, from Latin recuperāre, present active infinitive of recuperō (“I regain; I recover”).

• IPA^(key): /ko.ˈbɾaɾ/

cobrar

1. to recover; to regain
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 3 (facsimile):

     Eſta é de como ſanta maria fez cobrar a Theophilo a carta que fezera cono demo u ſe tornou ſeu vaſſalo.

     This one is (about) how Holy Mary recovered for Theophilos the contract he had made with the Devil and became his vassal.

• Galician: cobrar
• Portuguese: cobrar

From Old Portuguese cobrar, from recobrar, with apheresis[1][2], itself from Latin recuperāre, present active infinitive of recuperō (“I regain; I recover”). Doublet of recuperar (“to recover”), a borrowing.

• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /ko.ˈbɾa(ɹ)/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.ˈbɾa(ɻ)/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.ˈβɾaɾ/
• Hyphenation: co‧brar

cobrar (first-person singular present indicative cobro, past participle cobrado)

1. to charge (to ask for a certain amount of money for something)
2. to demand payment
3. (by extension) to demand that something be done
4. (sports) to take

• (to demand): exigir, mandar
• (to take): bater

• cobrado
• cobrador
• cobrança

Apheresis from recobrar.

• IPA^(key): /koˈbɾaɾ/, [koˈβɾaɾ]

cobrar (first-person singular present cobro, first-person singular preterite cobré, past participle cobrado)

1. to charge (money, etc.)
2. to collect
3. to gather up (strength, bravery etc.)
4. to pay for something (get one's dues)

• cobrador
• recobrar