caixa
Catalan
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:etymology at line 170: Old Occitan (pro) is not set as an ancestor of Catalan (ca) in Module:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Catalan is Old Catalan (roa-oca)., from Latin capsa. Doublet of capsa.
Pronunciation
Noun
caixa f (plural caixes)
- box
- savings bank
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
Related terms
- capsa f
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese cajxa, qajxa, from Latin capsa. Cognate with Portuguese caixa and Spanish caja.
Pronunciation
Noun
caixa f (plural caixas)
- 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; an 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
- 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
- 1426, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Historia de la Santa A. M. Iglesia de Santiago de Compostela, XI, nº Adicións-1.1, pages 79-92:
- coffin
- (music) drum
- Synonym: tambor
- cash desk
- cash box, cash register
- gearbox
- savings bank
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- Template:R:DDGM
- Template:R:DDLG
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- 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
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese cajxa, qajxa, from Latin capsa.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: cai‧xa
Noun
caixa f (plural caixas)
- box
- Chutei a caixa ― I kicked the box
- (music) Ellipsis of caixa de guerra; snare drum (Brazilian percussion instrument used in a samba bateria)
Derived terms
Noun
caixa m or f (plural caixas)
- cashier (one who works at a till handling payments)
- Aquele caixa trabalha bem. ― That cashier works well.
References
- The Oxford Paperback Portuguese Dictionary, 1996
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