Dictionary of Freemasonry  ACCEPTED - The Latin accipere,
receive, was from ad, meaning "to," and capere, meaning "take,"
therefore to take, to receive. The passive apprenticeship and
initiation, but after the participle of this was acceptus.  In
Operative Masonry members were admitted through course of time,
but when these operative Craft Lodges started to receive non
operative members and to distinguish these new gentlemen Masons
from the Operatives in the membership they were called the
"Accepted."  AFFILIATE - Filius is Latin for son, filia for
daughter; the prefix "af" is a form of the Latin ad, meaning to
add to. To be affiliated means therefore to be adopted into a
family as a son or daughter, a meaning that beautifully covers a
Mason's relation to his Lodge once he has affiliated with it.
ALARM - The Latin for weapons, or arms, was arma. Our "art" and
"article" came from the same root, art meaning something
originally made by the use of the arms, hands and fingers. The
English "alarm" goes back direc