acception

From Middle English accepcioun, from Middle French accepcion (Modern French acception) and Latin acceptiō, acceptiōnis (“acceptance”). By surface analysis, accept +‎ -ion.

• Homophone: exception

acception (plural acceptions)

1. (obsolete) Acceptation; received meaning.
2. (rare, proscribed) acceptance

• acception of persons
• acception of faces

• accept

• “acception”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin acceptiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /ak.sɛp.sjɔ̃/

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acception f (plural acceptions)

1. meaning, sense (of a word), acceptation

   Synonyms: sens, signification

• sans acception de

• accepter

• “acception”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.