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 capsa 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.

• “capsa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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 (skápsās), masculine nominative active indicative aorist participle of σκάπτω (skáptō) (not cognate with the Latin term).^[2][3]

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

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

• capsārius
• capsella
• capsicum
• capsula
• capsus
• *capseus

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cassa (see there for further descendants)
• North Italian:
  • Emilian: cassa
  • Lombard: cassa
  • Venetan: casa
    • →⇒ Cimbrian: kèssle
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: chasse
    • French: châsse
      • → English: chase
    • → Middle English: chasse
      • English: chasse
  • Old Northern French: casse, case, quase
    • Norman: câsse
    • → Middle English: cas
      • English: case
      • → Irish: cás
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: caixa (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: caissa
    • Occitan: caissa; caisha (Gascon, south Lengadocian)
      • → Emilian: cascia
      • → Ligurian: càscia
      • → Lombard: cascia
      • → Piedmontese: cassia, cascia
      • → Romagnol: cascia
      • → Romansch: chascha
    • → Middle French: caisse
      • French: caisse
      • → Bourguignon: caisse
      • → English: cash
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: caixa, caxa
  • ⇒ *capseum (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Aramaic: קפסא (qapsa), קופסא (qup̄sā)
    • → Hebrew: קופסה (kufsá)
  • → Catalan: capsa
  • → Czech: kapsa
  • → Italian: capsa
  • → Romanian: capsă
• ⇒ New Latin: capsicum
  • → English: capsicum
  • → Italian: capsico
  • → Portuguese: cápsico
  • → Translingual: Capsicum

• “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