From Middle English receipt, receyt, receite, recorded since c.

• IPA: /ɹɪˈsiːt/

receipt

1. The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.

   A balance payable on receipt of the goods.

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene i]:

     Your Grace shall understand that at the receipt of your letter I am very sick

2. (obsolete) The fact of having received a blow, injury etc.
   • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xvi”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VI, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC ↗; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC ↗:

     And therewith Sir Launcelot gate all his armoure as well as he myght and put hit upon hym for drede of more resseite […].

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (in the plural) A quantity or amount received; takings.

   This weekend's receipts alone cover our costs to mount the production!

4. A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.
5. (usually, in the plural) (A piece of) evidence, documentation, etc. to prove one's past actions, accomplishments, etc.
6. (internet slang, usually, in the plural, by extension) (A piece of) evidence (e.g. documentation or screen captures) of past wrongdoing.
7. (archaic in New England and rural US since end of 20th century, elsewhere since middle of 20th century) A recipe, instructions, prescription.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC ↗:

     She had a receipt to make white hair black.

8. (obsolete) A receptacle.
9. (obsolete) A revenue office.
10. (obsolete) Reception, as an act of hospitality.
    • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer's Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC ↗; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC ↗:

      thy kind receipt of me

      The spelling has been modernized.

11. (obsolete) Capability of receiving; capacity.
    • 1644, John Evelyn, diary entry 21 October, 1644:

      It has become a place of great receipt.

12. (obsolete) A recess; a retired place.

• French: réception
• German: Empfang
• Italian: ricezione, reception (borrowed)
• Portuguese: recepção, recebimento
• Russian: получе́ние
• Spanish: recepción

• German: Einnahme
• Italian: incasso
• Portuguese: receita
• Russian: прихо́д

• French: for money or for hand-given thing: reçu, récépissé; for owed money: any of the preceding or quittance (specially for rents); for sent e-mail, letter, parcel: accusé de réception, ticket (in a shop)
• German: Empfangsbestätigung, Quittung, Beleg, Kassenzettel
• Italian: quietanza, ricevuta, scontrino
• Portuguese: recibo, nota fiscal, talão
• Russian: квита́нция
• Spanish: recibo, resguardo, ticket, tíquet

• French: recette
• Italian: ricetta
• Russian: реце́пт
• Spanish: receta

receipt (receipts, present participle receipting; simple past and past participle receipted)

1. To give or write a receipt (for something).

   to receipt delivered goods

2. To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; to mark a bill as having been paid.

   to receipt a bill

• French: quittancer