excipio

Latin

Etymology

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛksˈkɪ.pi.oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eksˈt͡ʃiː.pi.o]

Verb

excipiō (present infinitive excipere, perfect active excēpī, supine exceptum); third (-iō variant) conjugation

to take out, extract, pull out
to except, exempt from, exclude
to rescue, release
to receive, capture
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico VII.20:
  quos in pabulatione paucis ante diebus exceperat
  whom he had captured on a foraging some days before
to follow after, succeed a thing in time or the order of succession
Synonym: īnsequor
- Vergil, Aeneid 1.276:
  Romulus excipiet gentem, et Mavortia condet
  moenia, Romanosque suo de nomine dicet.
  Romulus will take the leadership, build walls of Mars,
  and call by his own name his people Romans.
(figuratively) (of conversation or dialogue) to answer, reply, take up the discussion in succession
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.114:
  [...] Tum sīc excēpit rēgia Iūnō: [...].
  [...] Then, thus replied Queen Juno: [...].
to host, accommodate, welcome
aliquem hospitio (or domo) excipere (or recipere, or accipere) ― to welcome someone as guest
to suffer, endure
(figurative) to understand (in the sense of taking in or receiving knowledge/meaning)
Id a proximis aliter exceptum... ― This was misunderstood by his attendants...

Conjugation

Conjugation of excipiō (third (-iō variant) conjugation)

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	excipiō	excipis		excipit	excipimus	excipitis		excipiunt
	imperfect	excipiēbam	excipiēbās		excipiēbat	excipiēbāmus	excipiēbātis		excipiēbant
	future	excipiam	excipiēs		excipiet	excipiēmus	excipiētis		excipient
	perfect	excēpī	excēpistī		excēpit	excēpimus	excēpistis		excēpērunt, excēpēre
	pluperfect	excēperam	excēperās		excēperat	excēperāmus	excēperātis		excēperant
	future perfect	excēperō	excēperis		excēperit	excēperimus	excēperitis		excēperint
passive	present	excipior	exciperis, excipere		excipitur	excipimur	excipiminī		excipiuntur
	imperfect	excipiēbar	excipiēbāris, excipiēbāre		excipiēbātur	excipiēbāmur	excipiēbāminī		excipiēbantur
	future	excipiar	excipiēris, excipiēre		excipiētur	excipiēmur	excipiēminī		excipientur
	perfect	exceptus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	exceptus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	exceptus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular				plural
subjunctive		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	excipiam	excipiās		excipiat	excipiāmus	excipiātis		excipiant
	imperfect	exciperem	exciperēs		exciperet	exciperēmus	exciperētis		exciperent
	perfect	excēperim	excēperīs		excēperit	excēperīmus	excēperītis		excēperint
	pluperfect	excēpissem	excēpissēs		excēpisset	excēpissēmus	excēpissētis		excēpissent
passive	present	excipiar	excipiāris, excipiāre		excipiātur	excipiāmur	excipiāminī		excipiantur
	imperfect	exciperer	exciperēris, exciperēre		exciperētur	exciperēmur	exciperēminī		exciperentur
	perfect	exceptus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	exceptus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular				plural
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	excipe		—	—	excipite		—
active	future	—	excipitō		excipitō	—	excipitōte		excipiuntō
passive	present	—	excipere		—	—	excipiminī		—
passive	future	—	excipitor		excipitor	—	—		excipiuntor
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		active		passive		active		passive
present		excipere		excipī		excipiēns		—
future		exceptūrum esse		exceptum īrī		exceptūrus		excipiendus, excipiundus
perfect		excēpisse		exceptum esse		—		exceptus
future perfect		—		exceptum fore		—		—
perfect potential		exceptūrum fuisse		—		—		—
verbal nouns		gerund					supine
		genitive	dative		accusative	ablative	accusative		ablative
		excipiendī	excipiendō		excipiendum	excipiendō	exceptum		exceptū

Synonyms

(except): exclūdō, eximō
(extract): extrahō, ēiciō, exciō, exuō, ēdūcō
(suffer): sustineo, patio, perpetior, subeo, suffero, sino, admitto
(understand): comprehendō, dēprehendō, apprehendō, accipiō, cognōscō, concipiō, teneō, apīscor, capiō, complector, exaudiō, cōnsequor
(capture): comprehendo, capio, obsideo, retineo, teneo
(follow, succeed): subeō, succēdō, sequor
(release): līberō, eximō, exuō, exonerō, absolvō, prīvō, persolvō, ēmittō, extrahō
(rescue): adimō, vindicō, servō, ēripiō
(extract): extrahō, eximō, ēvehō, legō

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “extract”): īnsertō, īnserō, intrōferō
(antonym(s) of “release”): refrēnō, coërceō, saepiō, officiō, obstō, comprimō, impediō, arceō, supprimō
(antonym(s) of “understand”): ignōrō, nesciō

Descendants

Albanian: shqipoj, shqip
English: except
Italian: eccepire
Sicilian: accipiri
Spanish: exceptuar

References

“excipio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“excipio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
excipio in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
“excipio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the connection of thought: ratio, qua sententiae inter se excipiunt.
- to welcome a man as a guest in one's house: hospitio aliquem accipere or excipere (domum ad se)
- to parry the attack: impetum excipere (Liv. 6. 12)
- to cut off some one's flight: excipere aliquem fugientem
- to be (seriously, mortally) wounded: vulnus (grave, mortiferum) accipere, excipere