recipiente

Galician

Noun

recipiente m (plural recipientes)

1. vessel, container

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recipientem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re.t͡ʃiˈpjɛn.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: re‧ci‧pièn‧te

Noun

recipiente m (plural recipienti)

1. container, vessel

   Synonym: contenitore

   • 1826, Lorenzo Palatino, Storia di Pozzuoli: e contorni con breve tratto istorico di Ercolano, Pompei, Stabia, e Pesto, Dalla tip. di L. Nobile, page 265:

     Nel centro dell’ atrio, ed in uno recipiente di acqua, che suole esservi in tutte le abitazioni di Pompei, si rinvenne su di una base di marmo una cerva di bronzo, e sopra eravi seduto un giovine Ercole di perfettissima bellezza.

     In the centre of the atrium, and in a water container, that usually exists in every residence of Pompey, one finds above a marble base a bronze hind, and above sat a young Hercules of perfect beauty.

Related terms

• recepire

Latin

Participle

recipiente

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of recipiēns

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin recipientem, from recipiō (“to take back; to receive”), from re- + capiō.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.si.piˈẽ.t͡ʃi/ [he.si.pɪˈẽ.t͡ʃi], (faster pronunciation) /ʁe.siˈpjẽ.t͡ʃi/ [he.siˈpjẽ.t͡ʃi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.si.piˈẽ.t͡ʃi/ [he.si.pɪˈẽ.t͡ʃi], (faster pronunciation) /ʁe.siˈpjẽ.t͡ʃi/ [he.siˈpjẽ.t͡ʃi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁe.si.piˈẽ.t͡ʃi/ [χe.si.pɪˈẽ.t͡ʃi], (faster pronunciation) /ʁe.siˈpjẽ.t͡ʃi/ [χe.siˈpjẽ.t͡ʃi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.si.piˈẽ.te/ [he.si.pɪˈẽ.te], (faster pronunciation) /ʁe.siˈpjẽ.te/ [he.siˈpjẽ.te]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.siˈpjẽ.tɨ/

Noun

recipiente m (plural recipientes)

1. vessel; container (item in which objects may be stored and transported)

   Synonym: receptáculo

Adjective

recipiente m or f (plural recipientes, not comparable)

1. in which objects may be stored and transported

Related terms

• receber
• recepção
• receptação
• receptacular
• receptáculo
• receptador
• receptar
• receptibilidade
• receptível
• receptivo
• receptor
• recibo

 

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recipientem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /reθiˈpjente/ [re.θiˈpjẽn̪.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /resiˈpjente/ [re.siˈpjẽn̪.t̪e]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: re‧ci‧pien‧te

Noun

recipiente m (plural recipientes)

1. vessel, container

   Synonym: contenedor

Related terms

• recibir

 

Further reading

• “recipiente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014