receivable

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /rɪˈsivəbəl/ UK /rɪˈsiːvəbəl/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

adj
owed as a debt and awaiting collection; an amount due to be received

The firm's accounts receivable swelled as clients delayed payment.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adj · owed as a debt and awaiting... collectibleoutstanding due owing

Opposites

payable

Word family

Related forms receive receipt receiver reception

Etymology

From receive + -able; receive from Old French receivre, from Latin recipere ('to take back, receive'), from re- ('back') + capere ('to take').

recipere Latin capere Latin

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Topics

Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives

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# receivable

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /rɪˈsivəbəl/
**IPA (UK):** /rɪˈsiːvəbəl/

## Meanings
1. owed as a debt and awaiting collection; an amount due to be received

## Examples
- The firm's accounts receivable swelled as clients delayed payment.

## Synonyms
- collectible
- outstanding
- due
- owing

## Antonyms
- payable

## Related Forms
- receive
- receipt
- receiver
- reception

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

## Etymology
From receive + -able; receive from Old French receivre, from Latin recipere ('to take back, receive'), from re- ('back') + capere ('to take').

## AI Etymology
Receivable comes from receive + -able; receive from Old French receivre, from Latin recipere ('to take back, receive'), from re- ('back') + capere ('to take'). The historical chain includes Latin recipere and Latin capere. Older glosses in the chain include "to take back, receive", "back", and "to take", which help explain the semantic range of the modern word. Morphologically, receivable is best read as compound, suffixal formation, and borrowing, yielding an English adjective and noun shaped by both form history and later usage. In current English it functions as a adjective and noun, with the sense "owed as a debt and awaiting collection; an amount due to be received". related forms include receive, receipt, receiver, and reception. The result is an English adjective and noun whose etymology preserves the older forms while supporting the word's specialized modern meaning.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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