recapitulation vs recapitulate

recapitulation is a noun but recapitulate is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
recapitulation	Yes	No	No	No
recapitulate	No	No	Yes	No

recapitulation (noun)	recapitulate (noun)
(music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)
a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species

recapitulation (verb)	recapitulate (verb)
	summarize briefly
	repeat an earlier theme of a composition
	repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life