The story
- Latin · derived fromacceptō, acceptāre“receive”
- Old French · derived fromaccepter
- Middle English · inherited fromaccepten
- English todayaccept
First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin acceptō, acceptāre (“receive”), frequentative of accipiō, formed from ad- + capiō (“to take”). Displaced native Old English onfōn.
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchaccepter all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.