# accipio
## Latin
### Etymology

ad- (“towards”) +‎ capiō (“I take”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /akˈki.pi.oː/, [äkˈkɪpioː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /atˈt͡ʃi.pi.o/, [ätˈt͡ʃiːpio]

### Verb

accipiō (present infinitive accipere, perfect active accēpī, supine acceptum); third conjugation iō-variant
* to receive, accept, take
** 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Actus Apostolorum.20.35:Beatius est magis dare quam accipere.It is more blessed to give than to receive.
* (figuratively) to receive, accept, or take in something so as to alter one’s mental or physical state
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.529–531:At nōn īnfēlīx animī Phoenissa, nec umquam / solvitur in somnōs, oculīsve aut pectore noctem / accipit [...].[Midnight: All of nature is at rest.] But not the Phoenician [Queen], accursed in spirit. She is never released [from her anguish] by sleep, nor does she accept the night into her eyes or heart.
* to hear (of), learn (of), learn
* to bear, endure, suffer (particularly something disagreeable or troublesome)
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.29:Uti hoc incommodum accipereturThat this loss was sustained
* (something that was said or done) to take, to regard, to interpret (as) (with ad or in + acc.)
** 62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 4.4.1:et ego ipse, quem tu per iocum sic enim accipio divitias orationis habere dicisand I myself, whom you declare to be a joke (as I take it) to possess a rich store of language.
* to entertain (e.g., guests)
* to treat, to deal with
* to understand (receive as true)

#### Conjugation

$^1$At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

#### Synonyms

* (accept): recipio, concipio, ascīscō, sūmō
* (bear): tolerō, sustineo, patio, sino, perpetior, recipio, sufferō, perfero, dūrō, sustentō, subeo, ferō
* (understand): apprehendō, comprehendō, cognōscō, concipiō, teneō, dēprehendō, apīscor, capiō, complector, excipiō, exaudiō, cōnsequor

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “accept”): negō, dēnegō, recusō
* (antonym(s) of “understand”): nesciō, ignōrō

#### Derived terms

* acceptō
* acceptum

#### Descendants

* Portuguese: aceitar (short past participle only)
* Spanish: accipir

### References

* “accipio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “accipio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* accipio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to suffer mishap: calamitatem accipere, subire to suffer loss, harm, damage: detrimentum capere, accipere, facere to know from hearsay: auditione et fama accepisse aliquid we know; we have been told: accepimus to overestimate a thing: in maius accipere aliquid to take a thing in good (bad) part: in bonam (malam) partem accipere aliquid to be in correspondence with..: litteras inter se dare et accipere to give one's word that..: fidem dare alicui (opp. accipere) (c. Acc. c. Inf.) to be the victim of an injustice: iniuriam accipere to accept as a happy omen: omen accipere (opp. improbare) to interpret something as an omen: accipere, vertere aliquid in omen to entertain, regale a person: accipere aliquem (bene, copiose, laute, eleganter, regio apparatu, apparatis epulis) to welcome a man as a guest in one's house: hospitio aliquem accipere or excipere (domum ad se) to inherit something: hereditate aliquid accipere to lend, borrow money at interest: pecuniam fenori (fenore) alicui dare, accipere ab aliquo to reject a bill: legem antiquare (opp. accipere, iubere) to submit to the yoke of slavery: iugum servitutis accipere to suffer a defeat: cladem accipere to be (seriously, mortally) wounded: vulnus (grave, mortiferum) accipere, excipere to accept the terms of the peace: pacis condiciones accipere, subire (opp. repudiare, respuere) to accept the submission of a people: populum in deditionem accipere (ambiguous) to put down to a man's credit: alicui acceptum referre aliquid (Verr. 2. 70. 170) (ambiguous) much damage was done by this collision: ex eo navium concursu magnum incommodum est acceptum