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The story

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’)).