Where does “accepted” come from?
Accept comes from Middle English accept, from Latin acceptō, from Latin accipiō (to receive or take to oneself), from the Latin prefix ad- (to) combined with a root meaning to take.
accepted (English): simple past tense and past participle of accept;...
Definitions
- simple past tense and past participle of accept;...
Ancestry of “accepted”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | accept | To receive, especially with a consent, with... |
| 2 | Middle English | accepten | to accept |
| 3 | Old French | accepter | to accept |
| 4 | Latin | acceptō | to take, receive, accept (regularly) |
| 5 | Latin | accipiō | to receive, accept, take |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |