The corpus record — Latin

acceptor

acceptor · m

One who receives a thing

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. acceptor — Lewis & Short

acceptor, ōris, m.id..

I One who receives a thing (post-class.): donationis, Cod. T. 8, 56, 10.—Hence, absol., a receiver, collector, Inscr. Orell. no. 3199 and 7205.—

II Fig.

A One who receives a thing as true, grants or approves it, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 167.—

B One who unjustly regards the person, Eccl.

2. acceptor — Lewis & Short

acceptor, ōris, m., = accipiter,

I a hawk: exta acceptoris, Lucil. ap. Charis. p. 76 P.

In the wild

acceptorum Cicero, Laelius De Amicitia 58
Acceptorum Cicero, De Officiis 1.49.p1
acceptorum Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 10.81.28
acceptorum Seneca, De Vita Beata 7.23.5

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.