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Latin
Etymology
From ex- + capiō.
Pronunciation
Verb
excipiō (present infinitive excipere, perfect active excēpī, supine exceptum); third conjugation iō-variant
- to take out, extract, pull out
- to except, exempt from, exclude
- to rescue, release
- to receive, capture
- 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.
- (figuratively) (of conversation or dialogue) to answer, reply, take up the discussion in succession
- to host, accommodate, welcome
- aliquem hospitio (or domo) excipere (or recipere, or accipere) ― to welcome someone as guest
- to suffer, endure
- (figurative) to understand (in the sense of taking in or receiving knowledge/meaning)
- Id a proximis aliter exceptum... ― This was misunderstood by his attendants...
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (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
Antonyms
- (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
Descendants
References
- “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