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accipere

accipere is a Latin form of accipio, meaning “take, receive; hear; accept”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 337 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.14.7: Divico respondit: ita Helvetios a maioribus suis institutos esse uti obsides accipere, non dare, consuerint; eius rei populum Romanum esse testem. Hoc responso dato discessit.

Seneca the Younger, De Beneficiis 5.9.4: … obis beneficium, quod sequitur, non concedam; nam etiam si damus, non debemus. Quare ? Quia statim recipimus. Accipere beneficium me oportet, deinde debere, deinde referre ; debendi locus non est, quia sine ulla mora recipimus. …

Plautus, Casina 5.2.879: operám date, dum mea fácta itero: est operaé pretium auribus áccipere,

All forms of accipio (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.