receptus

Perfect passive participle of recipiō (“take back; receive”).

receptus (feminine recepta, neuter receptum); first/second-declension participle

1. (having been) taken, retaken, regained, recovered
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.13:

     Quod eo oppido recepto, civitatem Biturigum se in potestatem redacturum confidebat.

     Because he was confident that having taken that town, he would reduce the state of the Bituriges under (his) dominion.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.553–554:

     “Sī datur Ītaliam, sociīs et rēge receptō,
     tendere, ut Ītaliam laetī Latiumque petāmus.”

     “So if we are permitted to set course [for] Italy, with [our] crews and king recovered, then Italy and Latium we may desire gladly.”

2. received, having been received

First/second-declension adjective.

receptus m (genitive receptūs); fourth declension

1. retreat (falling back)
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.9:

     Ne ad eos Ambiorix receptum haberet.

     So that Ambiorix not have a retreat to them

Fourth-declension noun.

• “receptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “receptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• receptus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• receptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the retreat is sounded: signa receptui canunt
    
  • the retreat is sounded: receptui canitur (B. G. 7. 47)
    
  • (ambiguous) it is traditional usage: more, usu receptum est
    
  • (ambiguous) the cavalry covers the retreat: equitatus tutum receptum dat