How to Spell accept
accept
accept - verb
- To receive (something offered) willingly
- To be able or designed to take or hold (something applied or added)
- To give admittance or approval to
- To endure without protest or reaction
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"accept a gift"
Etymology
Latin
Middle English accepten "to receive graciously, favor, approve of, judge worthy," borrowed from Anglo-French accepter, borrowed from Medieval Latin acceptāre, going back to Latin, "to receive regularly, submit to, admit of," frequentative of accipere "to take, receive, accept, learn, interpret," from ad- ad- + capere "to take"
Word family
acceptance, acceptable, accepting