accepter

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /əkˈsɛptɚ/ UK /əkˈsɛptə/ See IPA manual

Homophones

acceptor /əkˈsɛptɚ/

Meanings

1

noun
a person who accepts or agrees to something

As the accepter of the bill, he became liable for its payment.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a person who accepts or... acceptor receiver taker recipient

Opposites

rejecterrefuserdecliner

Word family

Related forms accept acceptance acceptor

Etymology

From accept + -er, from Latin acceptāre ('to receive, accept'), from ad- ('to') + capere ('to take').

acceptāre Latin capere Latin

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Topics

People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives

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# accepter

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /əkˈsɛptɚ/
**IPA (UK):** /əkˈsɛptə/

## Meanings
1. a person who accepts or agrees to something

## Examples
- As the accepter of the bill, he became liable for its payment.

## Synonyms
- acceptor
- receiver
- taker
- recipient

## Antonyms
- rejecter
- refuser
- decliner

## Related Forms
- accept
- acceptance
- acceptor

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: acceptāre
- Root: capere

## Etymology
From accept + -er, from Latin acceptāre ('to receive, accept'), from ad- ('to') + capere ('to take').

## AI Etymology
accepter comes from accept + -er, from Latin acceptāre ('to receive, accept'), from ad- ('to') + capere ('to take'). Morphologically, the word is transparent: -er is attached to the older base named in the history, so the modern form packages an inherited or borrowed stem inside a later English derivative. In modern use, the noun sense is "a person who accepts or agrees to something", which keeps the etymology connected to the word's present dictionary value rather than treating it as a merely historical label. The wider word family includes related English forms such as accept, acceptance, acceptor, showing how the same base continues to support neighboring English vocabulary. The principal historical forms in the chain include Latin acceptāre, Latin capere, which anchor the explanation in named linguistic material.

## Topics
- People & Society
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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