Other forms: receipts
A receipt is the slip of paper a shop gives you to prove you paid. The long curl of till roll at the bottom of the bag, the one you keep for the warranty, the one you need before they will take the shoes back.
Say it ri-SEET, because the p is completely silent, and that is the single most useful thing to know about the word. In the plural, receipts can mean the money a business takes in, as in box office receipts or a week's receipts. There is a formal sense too, the act of receiving: on receipt of your application, or we acknowledge receipt of your letter. The verb is receive. The neighbour to avoid is recipe, a different word for a different thing, even though the two grew from the same root.
1nounreceiptA printed or written statement proving that you have paid for something.~30%
“Keep the receipt in case the kettle stops working.”
2nounactThe act of receiving something.~50%
“Payment is due within thirty days of receipt of the invoice.”
3nounpluralIn the plural, the money taken in by a business or an event.~20%
“Ticket receipts covered barely half the costs.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 10 sentences found in the wild and placed 10 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
receipt is a proof of payment.
Receipt came through Anglo-Norman receite from Latin receptus, from recipiō, made of re-, back, and capiō, to take. In Chaucer's day it meant a list of ingredients for a medicine, which is why receipt and recipe are the same word twice over. The p is a later piece of showing off, pushed into the spelling to make the word look properly Latin, and nobody has ever pronounced it.
Proto-Indo-European
*keh₂p-
Latin
receptus
Old French
recete
fro-nor
receite — receipt, recipe
Middle English
receyt
English, today
receipt
Built from
From Middle English receyt, recorded since c. 1386 as "statement of ingredients in a potion or medicine," from Anglo-Norman - or fro-nor receite (“receipt, recipe”) (1304), altered (by influence of receit (“he receives”), from Latin recipit) from Old French recete, from Latin receptus, perfect passive participle of recipiō, itself from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to take”). The unpronounced p was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root. a doublet of recept and recipe. رسید (whence Urdu رسید).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA