recepto Latin · revision 33244

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius|origins=ine-pro *kap-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛˈkɛp.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈt͡ʃɛp.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''receptō''' (present infinitive receptāre, perfect active receptāvī, supine receptātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|recipiō|-tō|t1=to take back, receive]], a frequentative formed on the participle [[m|la|receptus#2]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) That verb is a compound of [[m|la|capiō|t=to take]], which Wiktionary traces to [[ine-pro|*kap-|t=to grasp]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Ennius has it first, in the ''Annals'', of the hollow vault of the sky taking something back.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short note that it is mostly poetic and post-Augustan, and absent from Cicero and Caesar.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is to take back or recover: Lucretius has a body slowly coming back to its senses and taking back its breath, Virgil a spear pulled back out of the bones, and Lucan nature taking all things back into her lap.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) With ''sē'' it is to withdraw: Terence has withdrawing into the house, Virgil the star of Saturn retiring, and Persius a shore receding into a bay.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) It is also to receive often or habitually: Terence has a woman receiving the speaker's son, Livy merchants admitted, Tacitus debtors sheltered, and Apuleius a girl protected in a house.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Church Latin has “receive, draw back, retire”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius, of the sky taking something back.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, of withdrawing and of receiving a visitor.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius, of recovering breath.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of sheltering debtors.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To take back, [[m|en|recover]], pull back.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(reflexive)'' To [[m|en|withdraw]], retire; of places, to recede.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To receive often, [[m|en|admit]], shelter.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[receptabilis]]

+ * [[receptāculum]]

+ * [[receptātor]]

+ * [[receptor]]

+ * [[receptrīx]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[recipiō]]

+ * [[receptus#2]]

+ * [[capiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}