receipt

Origin: From , recorded since c. 1386 as "statement of ingredients in a potion or medicine," from or (1304), altered (by influence of he receives, from ) from , from , perfect passive participle of recipiō, itself from back + to take. The unpronounced p was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root. . (whence ). Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).