Recipimus

Recipimus is a Latin verb form, specifically the first-person plural present active indicative of the verb recipio, recipere, recepi, receptum. The verb belongs to the third-conjugation with a characteristic -io ending in the present active. The principal senses of recipio include to receive, to take back, to regain, and more broadly to accept or obtain something, such as a gift, an offer, or a position. The form recipimus therefore means “we receive,” “we take back,” or, depending on context, “we gain/obtain.”

Etymology and usage

Recipio is derived from re- “back” plus capere “to take.” In classical Latin, recipio covers a range from physically receiving an object to figurative senses like accepting a proposal or regaining something lost. In legal or practical prose, recipimus often appears in statements about accepting terms, receiving goods, or reclaiming rights: for example, donum recipimus (“we receive a gift”) or res recepta (“the thing is recovered”). The form recipimus is used with an explicit or implicit subject nos (we).

Grammatical notes

As a present tense form, recipimus carries present-time meaning. It is one of several persons and tenses of recipio; the full paradigm includes recipis, recipit, recipitis, recipiunt in the present indicative, and corresponding forms in other tenses and voices. The verb’s active voice focuses on the subject performing the action.

See also

Recipio, receptio, reception.