# excipio
## Latin
### Etymology

From ex- +‎ capiō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /eksˈki.pi.oː/, [ɛks̠ˈkɪpioː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /eksˈt͡ʃi.pi.o/, [eksˈt͡ʃiːpio]

### Verb

excipiō (present infinitive excipere, perfect active excēpī, supine exceptum); third conjugation iō-variant
* to take out, extract, pull out
* to except, exempt from, exclude
* to rescue, release
* to receive, capture
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.20:quos in pabulatione paucis ante diebus exceperatwhom he had captured on a foraging some days before
* to follow after, succeed a thing in time or the order of succession
    Synonym: īnsequor
** Vergil, Aeneid 1.276:Romulus excipiet gentem, et Mavortia condet moenia, Romanosque suo de nomine dicet.Romulus will take the leadership, build walls of Mars, and call by his own name his people Romans.
* (figuratively) (of conversation or dialogue) to answer, reply, take up the discussion in succession
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.114:[...] Tum sīc excēpit rēgia Iūnō: [...].[...] Then, thus replied Queen Juno: [...].
* to host, accommodate, welcome
    aliquem hospitio (or domo) excipere (or recipere, or accipere) ― to welcome someone as guest
* to suffer, endure
* (figurative) to understand (in the sense of taking in or receiving knowledge/meaning)
    Id a proximis aliter exceptum... ― This was misunderstood by his attendants...

#### Synonyms

* (except): exclūdō, eximō
* (extract): extrahō, ēiciō, exciō, exuō, ēdūcō
* (suffer): sustineo, patio, perpetior, subeo, suffero, sino, admitto
* (understand): comprehendō, dēprehendō, apprehendō, accipiō, cognōscō, concipiō, teneō, apīscor, capiō, complector, exaudiō, cōnsequor
* (capture): comprehendo, capio, obsideo, retineo, teneo
* (follow, succeed): subeō, succēdō, sequor
* (release): līberō, eximō, exuō, exonerō, absolvō, prīvō, persolvō, ēmittō, extrahō
* (rescue): adimō, vindicō, servō, ēripiō
* (extract): extrahō, eximō, ēvehō, legō

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “extract”): īnsertō, īnserō, intrōferō
* (antonym(s) of “release”): refrēnō, coerceō, saepiō, officiō, obstō, comprimō, impediō, arceō, supprimō
* (antonym(s) of “understand”): ignōrō, nesciō

#### Descendants

* >? Albanian: shqipoj, shqip
* English: except
* Italian: eccepire
* Sicilian: accipiri
* Spanish: exceptuar

### References

* “excipio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “excipio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* excipio in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
* excipio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. the connection of thought: ratio, qua sententiae inter se excipiunt. to welcome a man as a guest in one's house: hospitio aliquem accipere or excipere (domum ad se) to parry the attack: impetum excipere (Liv. 6. 12) to cut off some one's flight: excipere aliquem fugientem to be (seriously, mortally) wounded: vulnus (grave, mortiferum) accipere, excipere