laatikko

Borrowed from Old Swedish ladhika (“small box”) (compare modern Swedish läddika and Danish læddike, lædike (“chest, box, drawer”)), from Middle Low German ladic, ladicke, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hlaþō (“drawer”) (compare German Lade, whence Hungarian láda, ládikó). The ending of the word is influenced by -kko.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːtikːo/, [ˈlɑ̝ːt̪ikːo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑːtikːo
• Syllabification^(key): laa‧tik‧ko
• Hyphenation^(key): laa‧tik‧ko

laatikko

1. box (cuboid space; container; compartment)
2. drawer (open-topped box in a cabinet used for storing)

   Synonym: vetolaatikko

3. casserole (food consisting of vegetables, meat and starchy binder, cooked in a high-walled dish or pan)
4. (firearms) synonym of lukonkehys (“receiver”)

Smaller boxes and containers are usually called rasia.

• (drawer): vetolaatikko
• (casserole): laatikkoruoka

• “laatikko”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023