recipiens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of recipiō (“take back; receive”).

Participle

recipiēns (genitive recipientis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. taking back
2. receiving

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	recipiēns			recipientēs	recipientia
genitive	recipientis			recipientium
dative	recipientī			recipientibus
accusative	recipientem	recipiēns		recipientēs recipientīs	recipientia
ablative	recipiente recipientī1			recipientibus
vocative	recipiēns			recipientēs	recipientia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Descendants

• → Catalan: recipient
• → English: recipient
• → French: récipient
• → Italian: recipiente
• → Portuguese: recipiente
• → Romanian: recipient
• → Spanish: recipiente