acceptus

acceptus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of accipiō (“receive, accept”).

Participle

acceptus (feminine accepta, neuter acceptum, comparative acceptior, superlative acceptissimus); first/second-declension participle

1. received, having been accepted, accepted
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Lucas 9:16:

     Acceptis autem quinque panibus et duobus piscibus respexit in caelum et benedixit illis et fregit et distribuit discipulis suis ut ponerent ante turbas.

     Then [Jesus] took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and broke, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.

2. welcome, agreeable, acceptable

   Synonyms: amoenus, dulcis, grātus, iūcundus

3. credited

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	acceptus	accepta	acceptum		acceptī	acceptae	accepta
Genitive	acceptī	acceptae	acceptī		acceptōrum	acceptārum	acceptōrum
Dative	acceptō		acceptō		acceptīs
Accusative	acceptum	acceptam	acceptum		acceptōs	acceptās	accepta
Ablative	acceptō	acceptā	acceptō		acceptīs
Vocative	accepte	accepta	acceptum		acceptī	acceptae	accepta

Derived terms

• acceptum (accounting)

References

• “acceptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “acceptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• acceptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) having exchanged pledges, promises: fide data et accepta (Sall. Iug. 81. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) after mutual greeting: salute data (accepta) redditaque
    
  • (ambiguous) for a trifle, a beggarly pittance: nummulis acceptis (Att. 1. 16. 6)
    
  • (ambiguous) account-book; ledger: codex or tabulae ratio accepti et expensi
    
  • (ambiguous) to put down to a man's credit: alicui acceptum referre aliquid (Verr. 2. 70. 170)
    
  • (ambiguous) the account of receipts and expenditure: ratio acceptorum et datorum (accepti et expensi) (Amic. 16. 58)
    
  • (ambiguous) after many had been wounded on both sides: multis et illatis et acceptis vulneribus (B. G. 1. 50)
    
  • (ambiguous) wounds (scars) on the breast: vulnera adverso corpore accepta
    
  • (ambiguous) much damage was done by this collision: ex eo navium concursu magnum incommodum est acceptum
    

Anagrams

• peccātus