receipt

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A piece of paper showing that you have paid for something.

   Keep your receipt in case you want to return the item.

2. 2
   noun

   The act of receiving something.

   Payment is due on receipt of the goods.

3. 3
   noun

   Proof or evidence of something someone has said or done (informal).

   He claimed he never said it, but we have the receipts.

From Middle English receyt, recorded since c. 1386 as "statement of ingredients in a potion or medicine," from Anglo-Norman or Old Northern French receite (“receipt, recipe”) (1304), altered (by influence of receit (“he receives”), from Latin recipit) from Old French recete, from Latin receptus, perfect passive participle of recipiō, itself from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to take”). The unpronounced p was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root. Doublet of recept and recipe. False cognate of Persian رسید (resid) (whence Urdu رسید (rasīd)).

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