## Meanings
1. To get something back or bring it back from where it is.
2. To find and bring back data or a file on a computer.
3. Of a dog: to run after and bring back something that has been thrown.

## Examples
- She went back to the cafe to retrieve the umbrella she had left.
- You can retrieve your saved documents from the cloud at any time.
- We trained the dog to retrieve the ball.

## Derived Forms
- retrievability
- retrievable
- retrieveless
- retrievement
- retriever
- unretrieved

## Related Forms
- retrieval

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *trep-
- Root: retrover
- Root: *tropō

## Etymology
Recorded in Middle English c. 1410 as retreve (altered to retrive in the 16th century; modern form is from c. 1650), from Middle French retruev-, stem of Old French retrover (“to find again”, modern retrouver), itself from re- (“again”) + trover (“to find”), probably from Vulgar Latin *tropāre (“to compose”).

## AI Etymology
Retrieve recorded in Middle English c. 1410 as retreve (altered to retrive in the 16th century; modern form is from c. 1650), from Middle French retruev-, stem of Old French retrover (“to find again”, modern retrouver), itself from re- (“again”) + trover (“to find”), probably from Vulgar Latin *tropāre (“to compose”). Modern senses include to get something back or bring it back from where it is. and to find and bring back data or a file on a computer.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as retrievability, retrievable, retrieveless, retrievement, retriever, and unretrieved and related forms such as retrieval.

## Topics
- Verbs of Movement
- Technology & Computing

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