Where does “accept” come from?
Accept comes from Middle English accepten, from Latin accepto, from Latin accipio meaning "to receive," composed of Latin ad- "to" and Latin capere "to take," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ád "to" and keh₂p- "to seize."
accept (English): To receive, especially with a consent, with...
Definitions
- To receive, especially with a consent, with...
Ancestry of “accept”, step by step
accept traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle English accepten
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | accepten | to accept |
| 2 | Old French | accepter | to accept |
| 3 | Latin | acceptō | to take, receive, accept (regularly) |
| 4 | Latin | accipiō | to receive, accept, take |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Latin acceptus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | acceptus | received, having been accepted, accepted;... |