recettour

• recettor, recettoure
• recetteur, reicetter, resettyr, ressettour (Late Middle English); resettour, ressettyr (Early Scots)
• receiptour, resceitour, resseitour (influenced by forms of receyt)

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman recettour, recettour, from Latin receptātor; by surface analysis, recet (“refuge”) +‎ -our (“-er, -or”). Compare receptour.

• IPA^(key): /ˌrɛːsɛˈtuːr/, /ˌrɛsɛˈtuːr/
• IPA^(key): /rɛˈsɛtur/, /rɛˈsɛtər/, /rɛː-/ (reduced; influenced by recet)
• IPA^(key): /rɛˈsæi̯tur/, /rɛˈsæi̯tər/, /rɛː-/ (reduced; influenced by receyt)

recettour (plural recettours)

1. A shelterer of criminals.

   Synonym: receptour

2. (uncommon) A fence; a shelterer of stolen goods.

• English: receipter, receiptor (obsolete)
• Middle Scots: resettar, ressettar
  • → English: resetter

• “recettǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “receitǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.