English → Latin
“accept” in Latin
accipiōto receive, accept, take; to receive, accept, or take in something so as to alter one’s mental or physical state; to heasuscipiōto take up, acknowledge; to undertake, assume, begin, incur, enter upon (especially when done voluntarily and as a favorrecipiōto take back, (i.e., regain possession of something); to recapture; to receive, accept, admitprobōto approve, permit, commend; to test, to inspect; to examineadmittōto let in, admit; to perpetrate, commitagnōscōto recognize, realize or discern, become acquainted with, know, perceive; to acknowledge or claim
The English word accept itself goes back to Latin capiō, through accepto.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
accept
(A) (A) PROP.,
to receive something offered, accipere: money from anybody, pecuniam ab aliquo (also to allow one’s self to be bribed).
To undertake, suscipere; recipere (the former, especially of free-will; the latter, on being asked. Both of accepting an office, etc.): not to accept anything; e.g., an office, deprecari munus. (B) ImPROP.,
approve of; am satisfied with; accipere (accept it): probare (approve of it): admittere (permit, approve): agnoscere (acknowledge; e.g., praise, honor). Accept an invitation, *promittere se venturum esse; an invitation to dine with anybody, promittere ad cenam, or promittere ad aliquem (not condicere alicui, which is, to invite myself to dine with anybody). Not to accept an offered honor, oblatum honorem respuere: an offer of battle, pugnam detrectare. To accept anybody as bail, aliquem vadem accipere. To accept a proposal or terms, coiulitionem accipere; ad conditionem accedere or (after long consideration) descendere (opposed to conditionem respuere, repudiare, or aspernari). To accept it very gladly, *conditionem cupidissime accipere; without hesitation, *non dubito accipere quod defertur; not to accept the proposals of peace, pacis conditionesdimittere. The conditions of peace are accepted, pacis conditiones conveniunt; to accept an excuse, excusationem, or causam, or satisfactionem (a justification) accipere. I accept your explanation or excuse, valet apud me excusatio tua.
Approve and follow: to accept advice, consilium accipere; to accept consolation, consolationem suscipere.
To act toward a person with partial regard, alicujus rationem habere. Not to accept the persons of men, nullius rationem habere: delectum omnem et discrimen omittere; auctoritates omittere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for accept?
- The usual Latin words for “accept” are accipiō, suscipiō, recipiō; also probō, admittō, agnōscō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.