acceptrix Latin · revision 9856

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=itc-pro *kap-i-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [akˈkɛp.triːks]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [atˈt͡ʃɛp.triks]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''acceptrīx''' ''f'' (genitive acceptrīcis, masculine acceptor); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|accipiō|-trīx|t1=to receive]], the feminine of [[acceptor]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) ⟨accipiō⟩ is from [[m|la|ad-]] and [[m|la|capiō|t=to take]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*kap-i-]].^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It occurs in Plautus' ''Truculentus'', ''neque datōrī neque acceptrīcī'' “neither to the giver nor to her who receives”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant she who receives.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Alcuin, in a letter about 803, calls death the receiver of the price of human salvation.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 803 – Alcuin uses it.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # She who [[m|en|receive|alt=receives]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[acceptor]]

+ * [[accipiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}