caixa

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin capsa. Compare Catalan caixa, Occitan caissa and Sicilian cascia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka(i̯)ʃa/
• Rhymes: -a(i̯)ʃa
• Syllabification: cai‧xa

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

caixa f

1. box
2. (finance) savings bank
3. (woodworking) mortise

Further reading

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin capsa. Doublet of capsa. Compare Aragonese caixa, Occitan caissa and Sicilian cascia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈka.ʃə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkaj.ʃa]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

caixa f (plural caixes)

1. box
2. (finance) savings bank
   • 2019, “Sento”, in Energia fosca, performed by El Petit de Cal Eril:

     Coses inútils com les caixes o els bancs / Coses terribles com les bales o els tancs

     Useless things like boxes or banks / Terrible things like bullets or tanks

3. (woodworking) mortise

Usage notes

• There is a semantic 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, confectionery, pills) are capsa.

Derived terms

• caixa forta
• caixa i metxa
• caixa negra
• caixa o faixa

 

Related terms

• capsa f

Descendants

• → Asturian: caxa
• → Leonese: caixa
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: cajxa
  • Galician: caixa
  • Portuguese: caixa
• → Old Spanish: caxa
  • Spanish: caja
• → Sardinian: cascia
• → Sicilian: caxa, cascia

Further reading

• “caixa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “caixa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “caixa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cajxa~qajxa (compare Portuguese caixa), probably borrowed from Catalan caixa, from Latin capsa. Compare Spanish caja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkajʃa/ [ˈkɑj.ʃɐ]
• Rhymes: -ajʃa

Noun

caixa f (plural caixas)

1. box
   • 1426, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Historia de la Santa A. M. Iglesia de Santiago de Compostela, XI, nº Adicións-1.1, pages 79-92:

     iten outras duas cruzes; a hua pequena, en que esta lyno domini, cuberta de follas douro, que adoran esta feyra mayor, et esta gardada en hua cayxa de madeyro; et a outra cruz mays grande, en que esta haun cruçifiçio con duas omajees, et dous escudos de armas de bendaña, et outros dous escudos con dous leoos, et o pee byrtado dela, et he toda de prata dourada

     item, two more crosses: a small one, in which is "lyno domini", covered with gold leaf, that they adore this major feast, and is kept in a wooden box; another larger cross, in which is a crucifix with two images, and two coat of arms of the Bendaña family, and another two coats with two lions, and its foot is broken, and is made of gilded silver

2. coffin

   Synonyms: ataúde, cadaleito, féretro

3. (music) drum

   Synonym: tambor

4. cash desk
5. cash box, cash register
6. gearbox
7. savings bank

Derived terms

• caixón
• encaixar

 

Related terms

• cousela
• couselo
• couso
• queixo (“chin”)
• requeixo

 

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cajxa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “caixa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “caixa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “caixa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Macanese

Etymology

From Portuguese caixa (“box”). Unusually, de-diphthongization did not take place (compare caxám, Spanish caja).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaj.ʃɐ/, /ˈkaj.ʃa/

Noun

caixa

1. small copper coin
2. measure of weight, one tenth of the condorim, formerly used in Macau to weigh silver used as currency in commercial transactions
3. camphor or teak trunk, engraved with Chinese drawings and intended for storing clothes
4. box

Related terms

• caxám

References

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#c
• Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “caixa”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 339

Portuguese

Uma caixa sem tampa

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cajxa~qajxa, probably borrowed from Catalan caixa, from Latin capsa. Compare Sicilian cascia, Spanish caja.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaj.ʃɐ/ [ˈkaɪ̯.ʃɐ], /ˈka.ʃɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaj.ʃɐ/ [ˈkaɪ̯.ʃɐ], /ˈka.ʃɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaj.ʃa/ [ˈkaɪ̯.ʃa], /ˈka.ʃa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkaj.ʃɐ/

• Audio (Portugal, Oporto):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ajʃɐ, -aʃɐ
• Hyphenation: cai‧xa

Noun

caixa f (plural caixas)

1. box
2. (music) snare drum

   Synonym: tarola

Derived terms

• a toque de caixa
• caixa chata
• caixa clara
• caixa d'água
• caixa de areia
• caixa de câmbio
• caixa de coleta
• caixa de correio
• caixa de costura
• caixa de entrada
• caixa de esquadria
• caixa de guerra
• caixa de música
• caixa de Pandora
• caixa de texto
• caixa dois
• caixa e espiga
• caixa econômica
• caixa eletrônico
• caixa registradora
• caixa torácica
• caixa-alta
• caixa-negra
• caixa-negra
• caixa-prego
• caixa-preta
• caixão
• caixilho
• caixinha
• caixista
• caixona
• caixote
• encaixar
• fora da caixa

 

Noun

caixa m or f by sense (plural caixas)

1. cashier (one who works at a till handling payments)

   Synonym: caixeiro

   Aquele caixa trabalha bem. ― That cashier works well.

Descendants

• Macanese: caixa

Noun

caixa m (plural caixas)

1. ledger
2. a cash register and the counter upon which it resides

Derived terms

• caixa automático
• caixeiro

 

References

• “caixa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “caixa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
• The Oxford Paperback Portuguese Dictionary, 1996