cápsula
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: cáp‧su‧la
Noun edit
cápsula f (plural cápsulas)
- (pharmacy) capsule (small container containing a dose of medicine)
- (physiology) capsule (membranous envelope)
- (botany) capsule (seed-case)
- (astronautics) capsule (part of spacecraft containing crew’s living space)
- pod (small vehicle)
Further reading edit
- “cápsula” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “cápsula” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cápsula f (plural cápsulas)
- (pharmacy) capsule (small container containing a dose of medicine)
- (astronautics) capsule
- cápsula espacial ― space capsule
- cap, bottle cap
- cápsula de botella ― bottle cap
- (media) spot, bulletin (short program segment)
- cápsula de radio ― radio spot
- cápsula informativa ― news brief
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “cápsula”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014