deceive

From Middle English deceyven, borrowed via Anglo-Norman deceivre from Latin dēcipiō, meaning "to deceive, beguile, entrap," itself built from dē- ("from") plus capiō ("to seize").

The word came into English through French and Latin, replacing the native Old English word beswīcan, which had covered the same ground before deceive took over.

It shares its Latin root capiō ("to seize") with captive, and its dē- + capiō pattern with conceive, perceive, and receive — all words built the same way but pointed at different meanings.