## Meanings
1. To get or be given something that is sent or offered.
2. To take and accept something that is offered.
3. To react to or be treated in a particular way.
4. To welcome and let someone into your home or presence.

## Examples
- He received many presents for his birthday.
- She received the award with a smile.
- The writer's new collection of poems was not well received.
- The community warmly received the refugees.

## Synonyms
- accept
- acquire
- attain
- cop
- enlist
- fang
- gain
- garner
- get
- land
- obtain
- procure

## Antonyms
- give
- lose
- sell
- unacquire
- unget

## Derived Forms
- autoreceive
- misreceive
- receivability
- rx
- transceive

## Related Forms
- deserve
- receipt
- receivable
- receivableness
- receival
- receiveable
- receiver
- receivership
- receiving
- receptacle
- reception
- receptionist

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *keh₂p-
- Root: receyven
- Root: recevoir
- Root: recipiō
- Root: -fōn

## Etymology
From Middle English receyven, from Old French receivre, from Latin recipere (“take back, accept, etc.”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to take”); see capacious. Compare conceive, deceive, perceive. Displaced native Middle English terms in -fon/-fangen (e.g. afon, anfon, afangen, underfangen, etc. "to receive" from Old English -fōn), native Middle English thiggen (“to receive”) (from Old English þiċġan), and non-native Middle English aquilen, enquilen (“to receive”) (from Old French aquillir, encueillir).

## AI Etymology
Receive comes from Middle English receyven, from Old French receivre, from Latin recipere (“take back, accept, etc.”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to take”); see capacious. Compare conceive, deceive, perceive. Displaced native Middle English terms in -fon/-fangen (e.g. afon, anfon, afangen, underfangen, etc. "to receive" from Old English -fōn), native Middle English thiggen (“to receive”) (from Old English þiċġan), and non-native Middle English aquilen, enquilen (“to receive”) (from Old French aquillir, encueillir). Modern senses include to get or be given something that is sent or offered. and to take and accept something that is offered.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as autoreceive, misreceive, receivability, rx, and transceive and related forms such as deserve, receipt, receivable, and receivableness.

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