receptive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
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Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Old Latin kapiō
Latin capiō
Latin recipiō
Latin receptus
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Medieval Latin receptivusbor.
Middle English receptive
English receptive
From Late Middle English receptive, receptyue (“capable of receiving something; acting as a receptacle”), borrowed from Medieval Latin receptivus (“capable of receiving something”), from Latin receptus (“retaken, having been retaken; received, having been received”) + -īvus (suffix added to the perfect passive participial stems of verbs, forming a deverbal adjective meaning ‘doing; related to doing’). Receptus is the perfect passive participle of recipiō (“to regain possession, take back; to recapture; to receive; to accept, undertake”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards; again’) + capiō (“to capture, catch, take; to take hold, take possession; to take on; to contain, hold; to occupy; to possess; to receive, take in; to comprehend, understand; to captivate, charm”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to hold; to seize”)).
Inflected forms:
form: more receptive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most receptive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of receiving something.
pos: adj
gloss: Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas.
pos: adj
examples: receptive to the idea
The patient was receptive to her treatment
The owner drank cider at the Spotted Woodpigeon and talked pleasantly with the villagers, who, on learning that he had never even heard of the Surrey cattle-maimings, were at great pains to pour information and theories into his receptive ear.
gloss: Of a female flower or gynoecium: ready for reproduction; fertile.
pos: adj
examples: When the delightful draught is quaffed and the winged beggar turns to leave, it is confronted with a straight and narrow way out, and before the open can be reached our bee must squeeze under a receptive stigma covered with sticky hairs which comb the pollen grains from the fuzzy back of the visitor.
gloss: Of, affecting, or pertaining to the understanding of language rather than its expression.
pos: adj
examples: receptive fluency
receptive aphasia
gloss: Of a female animal (especially a mammal): prepared to mate; in heat, in oestrus.
pos: adj
Related words: receipt
receive
receiver
receivership
receiving
recept
receptable
receptacle
receptacular
receptaculum
receptance
receptant
receptary
receptibility
receptible
reception
receptionism
receptionist
receptitious
receptor
receptoral
receptory
receptual
receptually
Derived words: baroreceptive
bioreceptive
bio-receptive
chemoreceptive
electroreceptive
extrareceptive
hygroreceptive
irreceptive
magnetoreceptive
mechanoreceptive
multireceptive
nociceptive
nonreceptive
osmoreceptive
photoreceptive
prereceptive
proprioceptive
receptive aphasia
receptive field
receptive language
receptively
receptiveness
receptive spot
receptivity
telereceptive
thermoreceptive
unreceptive
unreceptively
unreceptiveness
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