capsa

Borrowed from Latin capsa. Doublet of caixa.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkap.sə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkap.sa/

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.

• caixa
• capseta

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

From capiō (“capture, seize, take”).

• (Classical) 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.

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

• capsa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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, 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 conj.

1. to staple, fasten