recommend

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
recommend/rekəˈmend/

▶verb

• 1 put forward with approval as being suitable for a purpose or role.

  ■ advise as a course of action.

  ■ advise to do something.

• 2 make appealing or desirable.

• 3 (recommend someone/thing to) archaic commend or entrust someone or something to.

– derivatives
recommendable adjective,
recommendatory adjective,
recommender noun.

– origin ME: from med. L. recommendare, from L. re- (expressing intensive force) + commendare ‘commit to the care of’.