recipient
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French récipient, from Latin recipiēns, present participle of recipiō ("to receive").
Pronunciation Nounrecipient (plural recipients)
- One who receives.
- Synonyms: addressee
- the recipient of money or goods
- My e-mail never reached the intended recipient.
- (medicine) A person receiving donor organs or tissues.
- (chemistry) The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.
- French: receveur, receveuse, destinataire, récipiendaire
- German: Empfänger, Empfängerin
- Italian: destinatario, beneficiario
- Portuguese: receptor, destinatário
- Russian: получа́тель
- Spanish: receptor, receptora, adjudicatario (formal; law), destinatario, recibidor
- Italian: recipiente
- Spanish: recipiente
recipient (not comparable)
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