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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of accipiō (“receive, accept”).
Participle
acceptus (feminine accepta, neuter acceptum, comparative acceptior, superlative acceptissimus); first/second-declension participle
- received, having been accepted, accepted
- welcome, agreeable, acceptable
- Synonyms: amoenus, dulcis, grātus, iūcundus
- credited
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
References
- “acceptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “acceptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- acceptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) having exchanged pledges, promises: fide data et accepta (Sall. Iug. 81. 1)
- (ambiguous) after mutual greeting: salute data (accepta) redditaque
- (ambiguous) for a trifle, a beggarly pittance: nummulis acceptis (Att. 1. 16. 6)
- (ambiguous) account-book; ledger: codex or tabulae ratio accepti et expensi
- (ambiguous) to put down to a man's credit: alicui acceptum referre aliquid (Verr. 2. 70. 170)
- (ambiguous) the account of receipts and expenditure: ratio acceptorum et datorum (accepti et expensi) (Amic. 16. 58)
- (ambiguous) after many had been wounded on both sides: multis et illatis et acceptis vulneribus (B. G. 1. 50)
- (ambiguous) wounds (scars) on the breast: vulnera adverso corpore accepta
- (ambiguous) much damage was done by this collision: ex eo navium concursu magnum incommodum est acceptum
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