percevoir

Meaning

  1. to perceive, to make out
  2. to perceive (understand)
  3. to collect (e.g. taxes, transit fares)

Frequency

23k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɛʁ.sə.vwaʁ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old French percevoir, perceveir, from Vulgar Latin *percipēre, variant form of Classical Latin percipĕre (“to seize, to observe”).

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