receptus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of recipiō (“take back; receive”).

Participle

receptus (feminine recepta, neuter receptum); first/second-declension participle

  1. (having been) taken, retaken, regained, recovered
    • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.13:
      Quod eo oppido recepto, civitatem Biturigum se in potestatem redacturum confidebat.
      Because he was confident that having taken that town, he would reduce the state of the Bituriges under (his) dominion.
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.553–554:
      “Sī datur Ītaliam, sociīs et rēge receptō,
      tendere, ut Ītaliam laetī Latiumque petāmus.”
      “So if we are permitted to set course Italy, with crews and king recovered, then Italy and Latium we may desire gladly.”
  2. received, having been received

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative receptus recepta receptum receptī receptae recepta
genitive receptī receptae receptī receptōrum receptārum receptōrum
dative receptō receptae receptō receptīs
accusative receptum receptam receptum receptōs receptās recepta
ablative receptō receptā receptō receptīs
vocative recepte recepta receptum receptī receptae recepta

Descendants

Noun

receptus m (genitive receptūs); fourth declension

  1. retreat (falling back)

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative receptus receptūs
genitive receptūs receptuum
dative receptuī receptibus
accusative receptum receptūs
ablative receptū receptibus
vocative receptus receptūs

References

  • “receptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “receptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • receptus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • receptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the retreat is sounded: signa receptui canunt
    • the retreat is sounded: receptui canitur (B. G. 7. 47)
    • (ambiguous) it is traditional usage: more, usu receptum est
    • (ambiguous) the cavalry covers the retreat: equitatus tutum receptum dat
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