Latin

Verb

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

1. I receive, accept
   • Actus Apostolorum 20:35, Latin Vulgate

     Beatius est magis dare quam accipere.

     It is more blessed to give than to receive.

2. I hear (of), learn (of)

Inflection

Descendants

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “accipio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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