The corpus record — Latin

receptio

receptio · f

A receiving

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Where it lives

Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k

What it meant

rĕceptĭo — Lewis & Short

rĕceptĭo, ōnis, f.recipio.

I A receiving, reception: quid tibi huc receptio ad te est meum virum? Plaut. As. 5, 2, 70 (cf., for the construction, accessio, aditio, curatio, tactio, etc.).—Esp.,

B A secret reception, Cod. Just. 12, 51, 17; David, Ambros. in Luc. 5, 38.—

II A holding back, relaining; esp. jurid. t. t., reservation: quidquid venditor recipere vult, nominatim recipi oportet: nam illa generalis receptio nihil prospicit, etc., Dig. 8, 4, 10.

In the wild

receptionis Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 52.1
receptio Plautus, Asinaria 5.2

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.