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Added 9 October 2026

receipt

/ɹɪˈsiːt/ noun

Latin root: recipit Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about receipt at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.
A balance payable on receipt of the goods.
The fact of having received a blow, injury etc.
A quantity or amount received; takings.
This weekend's receipts alone cover our costs to mount the production!

verb

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

Origin

From Middle English receyt, 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 (“to 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)).

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