receipt

Meaning

Noun

1. The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.
2. (obsolete) The fact of having received a blow, injury etc.
3. A quantity or amount received; takings.
4. A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.
5. (A piece of) evidence, documentation, etc. to prove one's past actions, accomplishments, etc.
6. (A piece of) evidence (e.g. documentation or screen captures) of past wrongdoing.
7. A recipe, instructions, prescription.
8. (obsolete) A receptacle.
9. (obsolete) A revenue office.
10. (obsolete) Reception, as an act of hospitality.
11. (obsolete) Capability of receiving; capacity.
12. (obsolete) A recess; a retired place.

Verb

1. To give or write a receipt (for something).
2. To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; to mark a bill as having been paid.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈsiːt/

Etymology

From Middle English receipt, receyt, receite, recorded since c. 1386 as "statement of ingredients in a potion or medicine," from Anglo-Norman or Old Northern French receite (“receipt, recipe”) (1304), altered (by influence of receit (“he receives”), from Latin recipit) from Old French recete, from Latin receptus, perfect passive participle of recipiō, itself from re- (“back”) + capiō (“I take”). The unpronounced p was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root. Doublet of recept and recipe. False cognate of Persian رسید (resid) (whence Urdu رسید (rasīd)).