Receptive
wiktionary
From Late Middle English receptive, receptyue(“capable of receiving something; acting as a receptacle”), [1] borrowed from Medieval Latin receptivus(“capable of receiving something”), from Latin receptus(“retaken, having been retaken; received, having been received”) + -īvus( suffix added to the perfect passive participial stems of verbs, forming a deverbal adjective meaning ‘doing; related to doing’). [2]Receptus is the perfect passive participle of recipiō(“to regain possession, take back; to recapture; to receive; to accept, undertake”), from re-( prefix meaning ‘back, backwards; again’) + capiō(“to capture, catch, take; to take hold, take possession; to take on; to contain, hold; to occupy; to possess; to receive, take in; to comprehend, understand; to captivate, charm”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-, *keh₂p-(“to hold; to seize”)).
etymonline
receptive (adj.)
early 15c., "having the quality of receiving, acting as a receptacle," from Medieval Latin receptivus, from Latin recipere "to hold, contain" (see receive). Meaning "affecting or relating to the comprehension of speech or writing" is from 1926. Related: Receptively; receptiveness; receptivity.
