excipio

From ex- +‎ capiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eksˈki.pi.oː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eksˈt͡ʃi.pi.o/,

excipiō (present infinitive excipere, perfect active excēpī, supine exceptum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. to take out, extract, pull out
2. to except, exempt from, exclude
3. to rescue, release
4. to receive, capture
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.20:

     quos in pabulatione paucis ante diebus exceperat

     whom he had captured on a foraging some days before

5. to follow after, succeed a thing in time or the order of succession

   Synonym: īnsequor

   • Vergil, Aeneid 1.276:

     Romulus excipiet gentem, et Mavortia condet
     moenia, Romanosque suo de nomine dicet.

     Romulus will take the leadership, build walls of Mars,
     and call by his own name his people Romans.

6. (figuratively) (of conversation or dialogue) to answer, reply, take up the discussion in succession
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.114:

     Tum sīc excēpit rēgia Iūnō: .

     Then, thus replied Queen Juno: .

7. to host, accommodate, welcome

   aliquem hospitio (or domo) excipere (or recipere, or accipere) ― to welcome someone as guest

8. to suffer, endure
9. (figurative) to understand (in the sense of taking in or receiving knowledge/meaning)

   Id a proximis aliter exceptum... ― This was misunderstood by his attendants...

• (except): exclūdō, eximō
• (extract): extrahō, ēiciō, exciō, exuō, ēdūcō
• (suffer): sustineo, patio, perpetior, subeo, suffero, sino, admitto
• (understand): comprehendō, dēprehendō, apprehendō, accipiō, cognōscō, concipiō, teneō, apīscor, capiō, complector, exaudiō, cōnsequor
• (capture): comprehendo, capio, obsideo, retineo, teneo
• (follow, succeed): subeō, succēdō, sequor
• (release): līberō, eximō, exuō, exonerō, absolvō, prīvō, persolvō, ēmittō, extrahō
• (rescue): adimō, vindicō, servō, ēripiō
• (extract): extrahō, eximō, ēvehō, legō

• (antonym(s) of “extract”): īnsertō, īnserō, intrōferō
• (antonym(s) of “release”): refrēnō, coerceō, saepiō, officiō, obstō, comprimō, impediō, arceō, supprimō
• (antonym(s) of “understand”): ignōrō, nesciō

• >? Albanian: shqipoj, shqip
• English: except
• Italian: eccepire
• Sicilian: accipiri
• Spanish: exceptuar

• “excipio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “excipio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• excipio in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• excipio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the connection of thought: ratio, qua sententiae inter se excipiunt.
    
  • to welcome a man as a guest in one's house: hospitio aliquem accipere or excipere (domum ad se)
    
  • to parry the attack: impetum excipere (Liv. 6. 12)
    
  • to cut off some one's flight: excipere aliquem fugientem
    
  • to be (seriously, mortally) wounded: vulnus (grave, mortiferum) accipere, excipere