Meaning

verb get something; come into possession of

verb receive a specified treatment (abstract)

verb register (perceptual input)

originFrom 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…

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0