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receptive

adj
/ɹɪˈsɛptɪv/UK/ɹəˈsɛptɪv/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- 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”)).

  1. derived from *kap-<id:seize>✻ — “to hold; to seize”
  2. derived from receptus — “retaken, having been retaken; received, having been received”
  3. derived from receptivus — “capable of receiving something”
  4. inherited from receptive

Definitions

  1. Capable of receiving something.

  2. Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas.

    • receptive to the idea
    • The patient was receptive to her treatment

  3. Of a female flower or gynoecium

    Of a female flower or gynoecium: ready for reproduction; fertile.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Of, affecting, or pertaining to the understanding of language rather than its expression.

    2. Of a female animal (especially a mammal)

      Of a female animal (especially a mammal): prepared to mate; in heat, in oestrus.

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Derived

baroreceptive, bioreceptive, bio-receptive, chemoreceptive, electroreceptive, extrareceptive, hygroreceptive, irreceptive, magnetoreceptive, mechanoreceptive, multireceptive, nociceptive, nonreceptive, osmoreceptive, photoreceptive, prereceptive, proprioceptive, receptive aphasia, receptive field, receptive language, receptively, receptiveness, receptive spot, receptivity, telereceptive, thermoreceptive, unreceptive, unreceptively, unreceptiveness

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for receptive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA