English → Latin
“receive” in Latin
accipiōto receive, accept, take; to receive, accept, or take in something so as to alter one’s mental or physical state; to hearecipiōto take back, (i.e., regain possession of something); to recapture; to receive, accept, admitexcipiōto take out, extract, pull out; to except, exempt from, exclude; to rescue, releasetegōto cover; to clothe; to conceal, hide, protect
The English word receive itself goes back to Latin capiō, through recipiō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
receive
accipere (to take something offered): recipere (to take, admit): excipere (to catch, take quickly): to receive into one’s house, recipere, excipere (recipere rather as a benefactor, excipere as a friend): hospitio accipere or excipere; tecto, ad se, ad se domum excipere; tectis ac sedibus recipere. To receive one as a guest, tecto ac domo invitare; ad se hospitio recipere domum; hospitaliter excipere: to receive one in a friendly, kind manner, benigne or benigno vultu excipere; benigne salutare, alloqui (to address): benigne audire (to attend or listen to; opposed to aspere tractare, male accipere): to receive with open arms, amantissime excipere: to be received by all with open arms, carum omnibus exspectatumque venire: to receive a person coming (by going to meet him), alicui obviam venienti procedere (Liv., 44, 1, 6): to receive one as a citizen, asciscere in numerum civium; facere civem: to receive one into a league or covenant, ad foedus asciscere; into an alliance, in societatem assumere: to receive into a family, in familiam assumere: to receive into a college, cooptare (in collegium et in ordinem): to receive into the Senate, legere in senatum or in patres: to receive a reading, *scripturam or lectionem recipere (☞ not cooptare; opposed to rejicere): the Anassus, which receives the Varranus, Anassus, in quem Varranus defluit.
To admit, allow, Vid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for receive?
- The usual Latin words for “receive” are accipiō, recipiō, excipiō; also tegō. 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.