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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[bor|la|recipe|t=take!]], the second-person singular imperative of [[la|recipere|t=to take, receive]],^(AHD)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate) which physicians wrote at the head of prescriptions.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) It was used in English from the 1580s for a medical prescription,^(Etymonline) partly via [[frm|récipé]].^(Etymonline)^(Wiktionary)
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+ The sense “instructions for preparing a food” is recorded by 1716.^(Etymonline) The older sense survives in the pharmacist's abbreviation ''Rx''.^(Etymonline) Compare [[receipt]] and [[receive]].^(Etymonline)
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}