recepimus

Recepimus is a Latin verb form that serves as the first-person plural perfect indicative active of the verb recipere, meaning to receive, to take back, or to recover. The form is part of the Latin third conjugation “-io” group, and its principal parts are recipere, recepi, receptum. The perfect tense is formed on the stem recept- with the standard personal ending -imus for the first-person plural, yielding recepimus for “we received” or “we have received,” depending on context and translation.

In usage, recepimus signals a completed action in the past. In classic Latin prose and poetry, it can convey straightforward past action or be rendered in English as present perfect in appropriate circumstances (we have received). The exact English rendering often depends on the surrounding tense sequence and the broader narrative.

Example sentences:

- Litteras recepimus. (We received letters.)

- Recepimus diligentiam a testibus. (We have received diligence from the witnesses.)

Recepimus contrasts with present form recipimus (we receive) and with other tenses of recipere, such as recebam (I/we were receiving) or recepimus in a pluperfect sense in certain contexts.

Overall, recepimus is a standard, widely attested form in Latin, illustrating the typical perfect active endings of a mixed -io verb and its use in reporting completed past actions. See also recipere, Latin verb conjugation, and related -io verbs.