verb

accept

Translation

to accept, to receive, to agree to, to acknowledge

I accept your kind invitation.

Please accept my sincere apologies.

He doesn't accept that he was wrong.

This machine accepts all major credit cards.

((sth.)) to agree to take something She accepted the gift.

((that ...)) to agree that something is true I accept that it's my fault.

((sb. as sth.)) to consider someone as something They accepted him as one of the team.

Synonyms: agree to, receive, acknowledge; Antonyms: refuse, reject, decline

From Latin 'accipere', meaning 'to take something to oneself', from 'ad-' (to) + 'capere' (to take).

Imagine someone holding out their hands 'to take' ('capere') something offered to them.