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Recipient

3 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means a person or thing that receives something
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Stage 1 of 3
recipere
Latin · ancient
"to take back, to receive"
to take back, to receive, from re- (back) and capere (to take)
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Stage 2 of 3
recipiens
Latin · ancient
"one who receives"
one who receives, present participle of recipere
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Stage 3 of 3
recipient
English · 1500s
"a person who receives something"
settled as the English word for a person who receives something
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