Recommends

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Expresses approval of something as suitable or beneficial
2. Advises or endorses a choice or action based on positive judgment
3. Offers a suggestion or counsel favoring a particular option or course

Etymology: "Recommends" is the plural of "recommend," so it shares that word's history. The verb came into Middle English from Old French "recommender," which drew on Latin "commendare," meaning to commit something to someone's keeping. That Latin verb was built from "con-" and "mandare," "to entrust," and "mandare" itself combined "manus," meaning hand, with "dare," to give. The original sense was closer to handing something over into another's care. Slavic languages reached a similar idea from the same kind of image. Bulgarian "препоръчам" (preporăčam) and Czech "doporučit" carry the sense of recommending, and both are related to the Proto-Slavic word for hand, *rǫka.

Synonyms: advises, suggests

Antonyms: discourages, dissuades