recipient

See also: récipient

English

schematic of alembic distillation
recipient is on the right

Borrowed from Middle French récipient, from Latin recipiēns, present participle of recipiō (“to receive”)

recipient (plural recipients)

One who receives.
the recipient of money or goods

My e-mail never reached the intended recipient.
(medicine) An individual receiving donor organs or tissues.
(chemistry) The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.

"Recipient" is often reserved for the act of receiving such things as awards or medals. "receiver" is used for insignificant items.

one who receives

Arabic: مُسْتَلِم‎ m (mustalim)
Armenian: ստացող (stacʿoł)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 收件人 (zh) (shōujiànrén), 接受者 (zh) (jiēshòuzhě), 收貨人 (zh), 收货人 (zh) (shōuhuòrén)
Czech: příjemce (cs) m
Danish: modtager (da) c
Dutch: ontvanger (nl) m, ontvangster f
Finnish: vastaanottaja (fi)
French: receveur (fr) m, receveuse (fr) f, destinataire (fr) m or f, récipiendaire (fr) m or f
German: Empfänger (de) m, Empfängerin (de) f
Greek: παραλήπτης (el) m (paralíptis), αποδέκτης (el) m (apodéktis)
Hungarian: fogadó (hu) (who receives something), átvevő (hu) (who receives an object personally from a middleman, especially a postman), címzett (hu) (in Hungarian mails címzett (referring to the person) is used instead of cím (address) including emails)

Japanese: 受取人 (うけとりにん, uketorinin)
Latin: acceptor m, acceptrix f
Macedonian: примател m (prímatel), примач m (prímač)
Maori: kaiwhiwhi
Meänkieli: vasthaanottaja
Norman: r'chéveux m, èrchéveux m
Polish: odbiorca (pl) m, odbiorczyni (pl) f
Portuguese: receptor (pt) m, destinatário (pt) m
Russian: получа́тель (ru) m (polučátelʹ), получа́тельница (ru) f (polučátelʹnica), реципие́нт (ru) m (recipijént)
Slovene: prejemnik m, prejemnica f
Spanish: receptor (es) m, receptora (es) f
Swedish: mottagare (sv)

individual receiving donor organs or tissues

the portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected

recipient (not comparable)

recipient m (plural recipients)

recipient

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