receipt

Meanings

Noun

• The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.
• The fact of having received a blow, injury etc.
• A quantity or amount received; takings.
• A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.
• (A piece of) evidence, documentation, etc. to prove one's past actions, accomplishments, etc.
• (A piece of) evidence (e.g. documentation or screen captures) of past wrongdoing, wrongthink or problematic behavior or statements.
• A recipe, instructions, prescription.
• A receptacle.
• A revenue office.
• Reception, as an act of hospitality.
• Capability of receiving; capacity.
• A recess; a retired place.

Verb

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

Origin

• 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 (1304), altered (by influence of receit, from Latin recipit) from Old French recete, from Latin receptus, perfect passive participle of recipiō, itself from re- + capiō. The unpronounced p was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root.