Etymology Explorer › Middle English

Where does “accepten” come from?

accepten (Middle English) comes from Old French accepter, from Latin acceptō, from Latin accipiō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

accepten (Middle English): to accept

Definitions

  1. to accept

Ancestry of “accepten”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchaccepterto accept
2Latinacceptō—
3Latinaccipiō—
4Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5Latinīn-—
6Latinîn—
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “accepten”

  • accepted
  • accept
  • accepting
  • acceptor
  • acceptation
  • unaccepted
  • accepter
  • accepteth
  • acceptant
  • unaccepting
  • nonaccepting
  • phosphoacceptor
  • acceptest
  • acceptingly
  • unaccept
  • acceptive
  • reaccept
  • nonaccepted
  • acceptee
  • acceptedly
  • isoacceptor
  • acceptivity
  • acceptress
  • acceptingness
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →