capsa

Meaning

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

Concepts

box

📦

case

cassette

tin

container

shelf

bookshelf

Synonyms

olla

scrinium

receptaculum

Translations

Büchse

📦

Schachtel

coffret

doos

📦

caja

📦

kutu

📦

Kassette

capsa

📦

scatola

📦

cassette

caixa

📦

slof

bibliothèque

δοχείο

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈkap.sa]

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kapsos, from Proto-Italic *kapjō (“to take, to seize”), possibly a relic of a sigmatic aorist stem in Proto-Italic that later merged with the perfective tense. 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). Cognate with Latin receptāculum.
Compare typologically English container, contain, content (<< Latin contineō).