capsa

Borrowed from Latin capsa. Doublet of caixa.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkap.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkap.sa]

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capsa f (plural capses)

1. box

• There is a semantical difference in the usage of caixa and according to their size. Boxes larger than a shoebox are usually called caixa, while boxes smaller than a shoebox (e.g. for matches, confectioneries, pills) are .

• “capsa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Latinism, borrowed from Latin capsa. Doublet of cassa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.psa/
• Rhymes: -apsa
• Hyphenation: cà‧psa

capsa f (plural capsae)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) a cylindrical container used chiefly to store books
2. a drawer where archived documents are stored

• capsa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• capsa in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

• caspa, pasca

From Proto-Italic *kapsos, from capiō (“capture, seize, take”), possibly a relic of a sigmatic aorist stem in Proto-Italic that later merged with the perfective tense.^[1] Compare Latin noxa from noceō, also Ancient Greek σκᾰ́ψᾱς (skắpsās), masculine nominative active indicative aorist participle of σκάπτω (skáptō) (not cognate with the Latin term).^[2][3]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkap.sa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkap.sa]

capsa f (genitive capsae); first declension

1. A box, case, holder, repository; especially a cylindrical container for books; bookcase.

First-declension noun.

• (pot): olla
• (bookcase): librārium, pēgma
• (box): scrīnium

• “capsa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "capsa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• capsa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “capsa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “capsa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “capsa”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “capsa”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

From capsă.

a capsa (third-person singular present capsează, past participle capsat) 1st conjugation

1. to staple, fasten