Receipt
/rɪˈsiːt/noun
A written acknowledgment that something has been received or paid.
Did you know?Receipt and receive come from Latin recipere, “to take back” or “to receive,” a word built from re- (“back”) + capere (“to seize, take”), so the idea is not just getting something — it’s reclaiming it.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*kap-
“to seize, take”
Latin
Latin
capere
“to take, seize”
Latin
Latin
recipere
“to take back, receive”
Old French
Old French
receite
“a receiving; a written acknowledgment”
Middle English
English
receite
“a receipt, a record of receiving”
Modern English
English
receipt
“a written acknowledgment of receipt or payment”