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acceptrix

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Pronunciation

  • IPA (Classical): [akˈkɛp.triːks][1]
  • IPA (Ecclesiastical): [atˈt͡ʃɛp.triks][1]

Forms

acceptrīx f (genitive acceptrīcis, masculine acceptor); third declension[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin accipiō (“to receive”) + -trīx, the feminine of acceptor.[2][1][3] ⟨accipiō⟩ is from ad- and capiō (“to take”), which de Vaan traces to Proto-Italic *kap-i-.[1][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

It occurs in Plautus' Truculentus, neque datōrī neque acceptrīcī “neither to the giver nor to her who receives”.[5][6][3] Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.[3]

Semantic evolution

It meant she who receives.[2][5] Alcuin, in a letter about 803, calls death the receiver of the price of human salvation.[7]

Timeline

  • c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.[5][3]
  • c. 803 – Alcuin uses it.[7]

Meanings

Noun

  1. She who receives.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  4. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  5. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  6. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  7. ^ a b Latham, R. E., D. R. Howlett, R. K. Ashdowne, et al. (1975–2013), Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: British Academy / Oxford University Press