So I'm reading Julianne Moore's bio on IMDB and I catch this phrase:
IMDB wrote:
In one of Moore's most distinguished performances, she recapitulated her "beguiling Yelena" from Andre Gregory's workshop version of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in Louis Malle's critically acclaimed Vanya on 42nd Street (1994).
My grammar nazi sense went into overdrive, screaming "she reprised the role, not recapitulated it!".
On a whim, however, I decided to look up the word recapitulate. I expected to discover either that there is no such word, or that it is somehow related to the meaning of capitulate (logical assumption, one would think), but I like to fact-check when something comes at me unexpectedly like that.
Instead, I discovered that the word does in fact exist and it's meaning isn't remotely related to that of capitulate.
Merriam Webster wrote:
1
a : to restate briefly : summarize
b : to give new form or expression to
2 : to repeat the principal stages or phases of <the view that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny>
a : to restate briefly : summarize
b : to give new form or expression to
2 : to repeat the principal stages or phases of <the view that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny>
This wasn't the last thing I expected to find - this wasn't even on my list.
