capsule

See also: capsulé

English

A capsule of medicine (sense 7)

Etymology

Borrowed from French capsule, from Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa (“box”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæps(ə)l/
• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkæpsjuːl/, /ˈkæpʃuːl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

capsule (plural capsules)

1. (physiology) A membranous envelope.
2. (botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
3. (botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, pages 4-5:

     The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis, with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in Frullania spp.

4. (anatomy) A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver
5. (anatomy) A membrane that surrounds the eyeball
6. (astronautics) A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
7. (pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
8. (attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
   • 1962, John F. Kennedy, We choose to go to the moon:

     If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.

9. (winemaking) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
10. (chemistry, dated) A small clay saucer for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.
11. A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
12. A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
13. One of the very small rooms for guests in a capsule hotel.

    Synonym: pod

Derived terms

• baby capsule
• Bowman's capsule
• capsular
• capsule hotel
• capsule of lens
• capsule review
• capsulize
• Glissonian capsule
• glomerular capsule
• nasal capsule
• renal capsule
• sense capsule
• space capsule
• synovial capsule
• Tenonian capsule
• Tenon's capsule
• time capsule

 

Translations

physiology: membranous envelope

• Afrikaans: kapsule
• Bulgarian: капсула f (kapsula)
• Catalan: càpsula (ca) f
• Finnish: kotelo (fi)
• French: capsule (fr) f
• German: Kapsel (de) f
• Greek: κάψα (el) f (kápsa)
• Hungarian: tok (hu)
• Persian: کپسول‎ (fa) (kapsul)
• Polish: torebka stawowa f
• Portuguese: cápsula (pt) f
• Russian: ка́псула (ru) f (kápsula)
• Spanish: cápsula (es) f

botany: seed-case

• Afrikaans: kapsule
• Bulgarian: шушулка (bg) f (šušulka)
• Catalan: càpsula (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蒴果 (zh) (shuòguǒ)

• Czech: tobolka f
• Finnish: kota (fi)
• French: capsule (fr) f
• Galician: bagaña f
• German: Kapsel (de) f
• Greek: κάψα (el) f (kápsa)
• Hungarian: gubó (hu), (of the poppy) mákgubó (hu), (of the flax) lengubó (hu)
• Italian: capsula (it) f
• Japanese: 蒴果 (さくか, sakuka)
• Korean: 삭과 (sakgwa)
• Latvian: pogaļa (lv) f
• Polish: torebka (pl) f, torebka nasienna f
• Portuguese: cápsula (pt) f
• Romanian: capsulă (ro) f
• Russian: коро́бочка (ru) f (koróbočka)
• Spanish: cápsula (es) f
• Tagalog: damladbunga
• Turkish: kapsül (tr)

part of spacecraft containing crew's living space

• Afrikaans: kapsule
• Bulgarian: капсула f (kapsula)
• Catalan: càpsula (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 太空囊 (tàikōngnáng)

• Finnish: kapseli (fi)
• French: capsule (fr) f
• German: Kapsel (de) f
• Greek: θαλαμίσκος (el) m (thalamískos)
• Hungarian: űrkabin (hu)
• Japanese: カプセル (ja) (kapuseru)
• Korean: 캡슐 (kaepsyul)
• Persian: کپسول‎ (fa) (kapsul)
• Polish: kapsuła (pl) f
• Portuguese: cápsula (pt) f
• Russian: ка́псула (ru) f (kápsula)
• Spanish: cápsula (es) f
• Tagalog: litsidlan

small container containing a dose of medicine

• Afrikaans: kapsule
• Arabic: كَبْسُولة‎ f (kabsūla)

  Hijazi Arabic: كبسولة‎ f (kabsūla), كپسولة‎ f (kabsūla)

• Belarusian: ка́псула f (kápsula)
• Bulgarian: капсула f (kapsula)
• Catalan: càpsula (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 膠囊／胶囊 (zh) (jiāonáng)

• Czech: kapsle f, tobolka f
• Danish: kapsel (da) c
• Finnish: kapseli (fi)
• French: capsule (fr) f, gélule (fr) f
• German: Kapsel (de) f
• Greek: κάψα (el) f (kápsa), κάψουλα (el) f (kápsoula)
• Hungarian: kapszula (hu)
• Icelandic: hylki (is) n
• Indonesian: kapsul (id)
• Italian: capsula (it) f
• Japanese: カプセル (ja) (kapuseru)
• Javanese: kapsul
• Korean: 캡슐 (kaepsyul)
• Persian: کپسول‎ (fa) (kapsul)
• Plautdietsch: Kaupsel f
• Polish: kapsułka (pl) f
• Portuguese: cápsula (pt) f
• Romanian: capsulă (ro) f
• Russian: ка́псула (ru) f (kápsula)
• Slovak: kapsula f
• Slovene: kápsula (sl) f
• Spanish: cápsula (es)
• Tagalog: kapsula
• Tarifit: reknina f
• Turkish: kapsül (tr)
• Ukrainian: ка́псула (uk) f (kápsula)
• Vietnamese: viên thuốc con nhộng

weasel — see weasel

winemaking: the covering over the cork at the top of the wine bottle

• Afrikaans: bottelseël
• Polish: kapturek termokurczliwy m
• Spanish: cápsula (es)

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• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} kapsulo

Verb

capsule (third-person singular simple present capsules, present participle capsuling, simple past and past participle capsuled)

1. (transitive) To form (medicine, etc.) into capsules.
2. (transitive) To encapsulate or summarize.

Anagrams

• laces up, scale up, scaleup, specula, upscale

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French capsule, from Latin capsula. Doublet of kapsel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑpˈsy.lə/

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• Hyphenation: cap‧su‧le
• Rhymes: -ylə

Noun

capsule f (plural capsules, diminutive capsuletje n)

1. (medicine, pharmacy) capsule (encapsulation containing drugs or supplements)
2. cover over the cork and opening of a bottle

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa (whence caisse).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kap.syl/

• Audio

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Noun

capsule f (plural capsules)

1. capsule
2. bottle cap
3. cap or primer for a gun
4. (Quebec) video or audio presentation

Derived terms

• capsulaire
• capsule temporelle
• décapsuler
• encapsuler

Descendants

• → Romanian: capsulă
• → Turkish: kapsül

Further reading

• “capsule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• spécula

Italian

Noun

capsule f

1. plural of capsula

Anagrams

• lupesca, scapule, specula

Spanish

Verb

capsule

1. inflection of capsular:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative