accipio
Latin
Etymology
ad- (“towards”) + capiō (“I take”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /akˈki.pi.oː/, [äkˈkɪpioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /atˈt͡ʃi.pi.o/, [ätˈt͡ʃiːpio]
Verb
accipiō (present infinitive accipere, perfect active accēpī, supine acceptum); third conjugation iō-variant
- I receive, accept
- Actus Apostolorum 20:35, Latin Vulgate
- Beatius est magis dare quam accipere.
- It is more blessed to give than to receive.
- Beatius est magis dare quam accipere.
- Actus Apostolorum 20:35, Latin Vulgate
- I hear (of), learn (of)
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
- Asturian: aceptar
- Catalan: acceptar
- Danish: acceptere
- Dutch: accepteren
- English: accept
- French: accepter
- Galician: aceptar
- German: akzeptieren
References
- “accipio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “accipio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- accipio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to suffer mishap: calamitatem accipere, subire
- to suffer loss, harm, damage: detrimentum capere, accipere, facere
- to know from hearsay: auditione et fama accepisse aliquid
- we know; we have been told: accepimus
- to overestimate a thing: in maius accipere aliquid
- to take a thing in good (bad) part: in bonam (malam) partem accipere aliquid
- to be in correspondence with..: litteras inter se dare et accipere
- to give one's word that..: fidem dare alicui (opp. accipere) (c. Acc. c. Inf.)
- to be the victim of an injustice: iniuriam accipere
- to accept as a happy omen: omen accipere (opp. improbare)
- to interpret something as an omen: accipere, vertere aliquid in omen
- to entertain, regale a person: accipere aliquem (bene, copiose, laute, eleganter, regio apparatu, apparatis epulis)
- to welcome a man as a guest in one's house: hospitio aliquem accipere or excipere (domum ad se)
- to inherit something: hereditate aliquid accipere
- to lend, borrow money at interest: pecuniam fenori (fenore) alicui dare, accipere ab aliquo
- to reject a bill: legem antiquare (opp. accipere, iubere)
- to submit to the yoke of slavery: iugum servitutis accipere
- to suffer a defeat: cladem accipere
- to be (seriously, mortally) wounded: vulnus (grave, mortiferum) accipere, excipere
- to accept the terms of the peace: pacis condiciones accipere, subire (opp. repudiare, respuere)
- to accept the submission of a people: populum in deditionem accipere
- (ambiguous) to put down to a man's credit: alicui acceptum referre aliquid (Verr. 2. 70. 170)
- (ambiguous) much damage was done by this collision: ex eo navium concursu magnum incommodum est acceptum
- to suffer mishap: calamitatem accipere, subire