receptive

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈsɛptɪv/
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• General-American: /ɹəˈsɛptɪv/
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• rhymes with -ɛptɪv
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• CMU ARPABET: R IH0 S EH1 P T IH0 V Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: R IY0 S EH1 P T IH0 V Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Latin recipiō Latin receptus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Medieval Latin receptivusbor. Middle English receptive English receptive From Late Middle English receptive, receptyue (“capable of receiving something; acting as a receptacle”), borrowed from Medieval Latin receptivus (“capable of receiving something”), from Latin receptus (“retaken, having been retaken; received, having been received”) + -īvus (suffix added to the perfect passive participial stems of verbs, forming a deverbal adjective meaning ‘doing; related to doing’). Receptus is the perfect passive participle of recipiō (“to regain possession, take back; to recapture; to receive; to accept, undertake”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘back, backwards; again’) + capiō (“to capture, catch, take; to take hold, take possession; to take on; to contain, hold; to occupy; to possess; to receive, take in; to comprehend, understand; to captivate, charm”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to hold; to seize”)).

60 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: ընդունակ (əndunak) — capable of receiving something
• Catalan: receptiu — capable of receiving something
• Danish: modtagelig — capable of receiving something
• Esperanto: akceptema — capable of receiving something
• German: rezeptiv — capable of receiving something
• German: empfangsbereit — capable of receiving something
• Greek: παθητικός (pathitikós) — capable of receiving something
• Ancient Greek: πᾰθητῐκός (păthētĭkós) — capable of receiving something
• Hungarian: befogadó — capable of receiving something
• Irish: gabhálach — capable of receiving something
• Irish: glacach — capable of receiving something
• Italian: recettibile — capable of receiving something
• Italian: ricettivo — capable of receiving something
• Kazakh: қабылдағыш (qabyldağyş) — capable of receiving something
• Macedonian: рецептивен (receptiven) — capable of receiving something
• Māori: mauminamina — capable of receiving something
• Persian: نیوشا (niyušâ) — capable of receiving something
• Polish: chłonny — capable of receiving something
• Portuguese: receptivo — capable of receiving something
• Portuguese: recetivo — capable of receiving something
• Portuguese: recetível — capable of receiving something
• Portuguese: receptível — capable of receiving something
• Romanian: receptiv — capable of receiving something
• Romanian: primitor — capable of receiving something
• Russian: восприимчивый (vospriimčivyj) — capable of receiving something
• Serbo-Croatian: ре̏цептӣван — capable of receiving something
• Serbo-Croatian: пријѐмчив — capable of receiving something
• Serbo-Croatian: rȅceptīvan — capable of receiving something
• Serbo-Croatian: prijèmčiv — capable of receiving something
• Spanish: receptivo — capable of receiving something
• Arabic: سَمَّاع (sammāʕ) — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Bulgarian: възприемчив (vǎzpriemčiv) — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Catalan: receptiu — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Danish: modtagelig — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Dutch: ontvankelijk — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Dutch: vatbaar — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Esperanto: akceptema — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Finnish: avoin — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Finnish: myötätuntoinen — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Finnish: taipuvainen — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Finnish: vastaanottavainen — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Finnish: vastaanottokykyinen — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• French: réceptif — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• German: aufnahmefähig — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• German: empfänglich — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Irish: gabhálach — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Kazakh: қабылдағыш (qabyldağyş) — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Latin: susceptīvus — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Māori: mauminamina — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Māori: mauritū — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Norwegian Bokmål: mottakelig — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Norwegian Nynorsk: næm — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Portuguese: receptivo — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Portuguese: recetivo — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Portuguese: recetível — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Portuguese: receptível — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Portuguese: aberto — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Spanish: receptivo — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Swedish: öppen — ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas
• Bulgarian: разгонена (razgonena) — of a female animal: prepared to mate — see also in heat