receipt English · revision 15078

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=before 1349|origins=la recipiō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /rɪˈsiːt/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|receite]], [[bor|xno|receite]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986)^(MWU 2024)^(NODE 1998) an alteration, after a form meaning “he receives”, of [[fro|recete]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) from [[la-med|recepta|t=thing received]], from the feminine past participle of [[la|recipiō|t=to receive, hold]] (see [[receive]]).^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)^(NODE 1998) The p, put back in imitation of Latin from the late 14th century, became established only in the 18th and was never pronounced.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(NODE 1998) The same was tried with [[conceit]] and [[deceit]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The act of receiving: before 1349, as resseite.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A sum of money received is from 1390,^(Barnhart 1988) and a formula for a medicine, a recipe, from about 1386 in the OED, 1392 in Barnhart.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988) A written acknowledgement of receiving money is from the 17th century.^(Hoad 1986) Trench notes that receipt once also meant a place for receiving, a receptacle, as in North's Plutarch and Bacon's Essays.^(Trench 1859) The verb, to mark a bill as paid, is from 1787.^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * before 1349 – the act of receiving.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * c. 1386 – a recipe.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1390 – money received.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 17th century – a written receipt.^(Hoad 1986)

+ * 1787 – to receipt (verb).^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A written acknowledgement that money or goods have been received.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # The act of receiving, or the fact of being received.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Usually in the plural, money or goods received.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(slang, plural)'' Evidence; proof.^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(archaic)'' A [[recipe]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To mark a bill as paid, or to give a receipt for money or goods.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[nonreceipt]]

+ * [[receiptor]]

+ * [[unreceipted]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[receivable]]

+ * [[receive]]

+ * [[reception]]

+ * [[receptive]]

+ * [[recipe]]

+ * [[conceit]]

+ * [[deceit]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}