accipio

ad- (“towards”) +‎ capiō (“I take”).

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

accipiō (present infinitive accipere, perfect active accēpī, supine acceptum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. 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.

2. to hear (of), learn (of), learn
3. to bear, endure, suffer (particularly something disagreeable or troublesome)
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.29:

     Uti hoc incommodum acciperetur

     That this loss was sustained

4. (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 dicis

     and I myself, whom you declare to be a joke (as I take it) to possess a rich store of language.

5. to entertain (e.g., guests)
6. to treat, to deal with
7. to understand (receive as true)

¹At least one use of the archaic "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").

• (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

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

• acceptō
• acceptum

• “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