recipio

Recipio, recipere, recepi, receptum is re- plus capio, third conjugation of the -io type. The a of capio weakens to i in the compound, which is what happens to a short vowel in an unstressed inner syllable: capio but recipio, accipio, excipio.

Two live senses. Plain transitive it means "take in, receive", and with a reflexive pronoun it means "withdraw": se recipere is the standard phrase for a retreat that is orderly rather than a rout. The corpus, being largely ecclesiastical, leans hard on the first sense, receiving a sacrament, a brother or a gift, while a military text will use the second constantly. Distinguish accipio, which is receiving what is offered, from recipio, which carries the re- idea of taking something in or taking it back. English receive, receipt, reception, recipient, recipe and, through French, recover.