different between recouper vs recoupe

English

Etymology

recoup +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u?p?(?)

Noun

recouper (plural recoupers)

1. One who, or that which, recoups; a legal action to recoup.

French

Etymology

re- +? couper

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ku.pe/
• Homophones: recoupai, recoupez, recoupé, recoupée, recoupées, recoupés

Verb

recouper

1. (transitive) to recut

Conjugation

Further reading

• “recouper” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Verb

recoupe (third-person singular simple present recoupes, present participle recouping, simple past and past participle recouped)

1. Archaic form of recoup.
   • 1855, Isaac Edwards, A treatise on the law of bailments (page 361)

     Under our former practice this defence could not be pleaded in bar, because it admits that the plaintiff has a right to sue, and seeks to recoupe damages on the ground that the plaintiff has failed to perform some stipulation in the contract […]

French

Verb

recoupe

1. first-person singular present indicative of recouper
2. third-person singular present indicative of recouper
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of recouper
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of recouper
5. second-person singular imperative of recouper