acceptio

Latin

Etymology

accipiō +‎ -tiō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /akˈkep.ti.oː/, [äkˈkɛpt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /atˈt͡ʃep.t͡si.o/, [ätˈt͡ʃɛpt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

acceptiō f (genitive acceptiōnis); third declension

1. acceptance
2. esteem

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	acceptiō	acceptiōnēs
genitive	acceptiōnis	acceptiōnum
dative	acceptiōnī	acceptiōnibus
accusative	acceptiōnem	acceptiōnēs
ablative	acceptiōne	acceptiōnibus
vocative	acceptiō	acceptiōnēs

Descendants

• Asturian: aceición, acepción
• Catalan: accepció
• English: acception
• French: acception
• Galician: acepción
• Italian: accezione
• Occitan: accepcion
• Portuguese: acepção, aceção (Portugal)
• Sicilian: accizzioni, accizziuni
• Spanish: acepción

References

• “acceptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “acceptio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• acceptio 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)
• acceptio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.