capsa

See also: Capsa

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capsa. Doublet of caixa.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

capsa f (plural capses)

1. box

Usage notes

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.

Derived terms

• capseta

Related terms

• caixa
• càpsula

Further reading

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

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Italian

Etymology

Latinism, borrowed from Latin capsa.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

capsa f (plural capsae)

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

References

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

Anagrams

• caspa, pasca

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Latin

Etymology

From capiō (“capture, seize, take”), 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 (skápsās), masculine nominative active indicative aorist participle of σκάπτω (skáptō) (not cognate with the Latin term).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

capsa f (genitive capsae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	capsa	capsae
Genitive	capsae	capsārum
Dative	capsae	capsīs
Accusative	capsam	capsās
Ablative	capsā	capsīs
Vocative	capsa	capsae

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

• capsārius
• capsella
• capsicum

• capsula
• capsus

Related terms

Related terms

• capiō
• capta
• captābilis
• captātiō
• captātor
• captātōrius

• captātrīx
• captensula
• captiō
• captiōsē
• captiōsus
• captitō

• captiuncula
• captīva
• captīvātiō
• captīvātor
• captīvitās
• captīvō

• captīvus
• captō
• captor
• captrīx
• captūra
• captus

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cassa (see there for further descendants)
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: cassa
  • Lombard: cassa
  • Venetan: casa
    • →⇒ Cimbrian: kèssle
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: chasse, casse, case, quase (northern)
    • French: châsse
      • → English: chase
    • → Middle English: chasse
      • English: chasse
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: caixa, caxa
  • 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
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *capseum
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: queixo
    • Galician: queixo
    • Portuguese: queixo
  • ⇒ Proto-Ibero-Romance: *kajs̆ada
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: queixada
      • Galician: queixada
      • Portuguese: queixada
    • Old Spanish: quexada
      • Spanish: quijada
• ⇒ New Latin: capsicum
  • → English: capsicum
  • → Italian: capsico
  • → Portuguese: cápsico
  • → Translingual: Capsicum

Borrowings

• → Aramaic: קפסא (qapsa), קופסא (qup̄sā)
  • → Hebrew: קופסה (kufsá)
• → Catalan: capsa
• → Czech: kapsa
• → Irish: cás
• → Italian: capsa
• → Romanian: capsă

References

• “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 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
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “caja”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 740

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Romanian

Etymology

From capsă.

Verb

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

1. to staple, fasten

Conjugation

    conjugation of capsa (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a capsa
gerund			capsând
past participle			capsat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	capsez	capsezi	capsează	capsăm	capsați	capsează
	imperfect	capsam	capsai	capsa	capsam	capsați	capsau
	simple perfect	capsai	capsași	capsă	capsarăm	capsarăți	capsară
	pluperfect	capsasem	capsaseși	capsase	capsaserăm	capsaserăți	capsaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să capsez	să capsezi	să capseze	să capsăm	să capsați	să capseze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		capsează			capsați
	negative		nu capsa			nu capsați