receptar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.se.piˈta(ʁ)/ [he.se.piˈta(h)], /ʁe.sepˈta(ʁ)/ [he.sepˈta(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.se.piˈta(ʁ)/ [he.se.piˈta(h)], /ʁe.sepˈta(ʁ)/ [he.sepˈta(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ʁe.se.piˈta(ɾ)/ [he.se.piˈta(ɾ)], /ʁe.sepˈta(ɾ)/ [he.sepˈta(ɾ)]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁe.se.piˈta(ʁ)/ [χe.se.piˈta(χ)], /ʁe.sepˈta(ʁ)/ [χe.sepˈta(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.sepˈta(ɻ)/ [he.sepˈta(ɻ)], /ʁe.se.piˈta(ɻ)/ [he.se.piˈta(ɻ)]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.sɨˈptaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.sɨˈptaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.sɨˈpta.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: re‧cep‧tar

Verb

receptar (first-person singular present recepto, first-person singular preterite receptei, past participle receptado)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of recetar. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of receptar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	receptar
Personal	receptar	receptares	receptar	receptarmos	receptardes	receptarem
Gerund
	receptando
Past participle
Masculine	receptado			receptados
Feminine	receptada			receptadas
Indicative
Present	recepto	receptas	recepta	receptamos	receptais	receptam
Imperfect	receptava	receptavas	receptava	receptávamos	receptáveis	receptavam
Preterite	receptei	receptaste	receptou	receptamos1, receptámos2	receptastes	receptaram
Pluperfect	receptara	receptaras	receptara	receptáramos	receptáreis	receptaram
Future	receptarei	receptarás	receptará	receptaremos	receptareis	receptarão
Conditional	receptaria	receptarias	receptaria	receptaríamos	receptaríeis	receptariam
Subjunctive
Present	recepte	receptes	recepte	receptemos	recepteis	receptem
Imperfect	receptasse	receptasses	receptasse	receptássemos	receptásseis	receptassem
Future	receptar	receptares	receptar	receptarmos	receptardes	receptarem
Imperative
Affirmative		recepta	recepte	receptemos	receptai	receptem
Negative (não)		não receptes	não recepte	não receptemos	não recepteis	não receptem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin receptāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /reθebˈtaɾ/ [re.θeβ̞ˈt̪aɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /resebˈtaɾ/ [re.seβ̞ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: re‧cep‧tar

Verb

receptar (first-person singular present recepto, first-person singular preterite recepté, past participle receptado)

1. (transitive) to receive
   • 2016 October 15, “Consejo Nacional Electoral entregó registro de electores”, in El Universo‎^[1]:

     Juan Pablo Pozo indicó que las 24 delegaciones provinciales del CNE estarán listas a partir del 19 de octubre para receptar las inscripciones.

     Juan Pablo Pozo indicated that the 24 provincial delegations of CNE will be ready to receive the registrations from the 19th of October onwards.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of receptar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			receptar
gerund			receptando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		receptado		receptada
		plural		receptados		receptadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	recepto	receptastú receptásvos	recepta	receptamos	receptáis	receptan
	imperfect	receptaba	receptabas	receptaba	receptábamos	receptabais	receptaban
	preterite	recepté	receptaste	receptó	receptamos	receptasteis	receptaron
	future	receptaré	receptarás	receptará	receptaremos	receptaréis	receptarán
	conditional	receptaría	receptarías	receptaría	receptaríamos	receptaríais	receptarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	recepte	receptestú receptésvos2	recepte	receptemos	receptéis	recepten
	imperfect (ra)	receptara	receptaras	receptara	receptáramos	receptarais	receptaran
	imperfect (se)	receptase	receptases	receptase	receptásemos	receptaseis	receptasen
	future1	receptare	receptares	receptare	receptáremos	receptareis	receptaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		receptatú receptávos	recepte	receptemos	receptad	recepten
	negative		no receptes	no recepte	no receptemos	no receptéis	no recepten

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Related terms

• recepción
• receptación
• receptáculo
• receptor
• recibir

 

Further reading

• “receptar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10