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capsa

See also: Capsa

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin capsa. Doublet of caixa.

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Noun edit

capsa f (plural capses)

  1. box

Usage notes edit

  • 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.

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Italian edit

Etymology edit

Latinism, borrowed from Latin capsa.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.psa/
  • Rhymes: -apsa
  • Hyphenation: cà‧psa

Noun edit

capsa f (plural capsae)

  1. (historical, Ancient Rome) a cylindrical container used chiefly to store books
  2. a drawer where archived documents are stored

Further reading edit

  • capsa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • capsa in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Italic *kapsos, from capiō (“capture, seize, take”), possibly a relic of a sigmatic aorist stem in Proto-Italic that later merged with the perfective tense.[1] Compare Latin noxa from noceō, also Ancient Greek σκᾰ́ψᾱς (skápsās), masculine nominative active indicative aorist participle of σκάπτω (skáptō) (not cognate with the Latin term).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

capsa f (genitive capsae); first declension

  1. A box, case, holder, repository; especially a cylindrical container for books; bookcase.

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative capsa capsae
Genitive capsae capsārum
Dative capsae capsīs
Accusative capsam capsās
Ablative capsā capsīs
Vocative capsa capsae

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References edit

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 90-1

Further reading edit

  • “capsa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • capsa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • capsa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “capsa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “capsa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • “capsa”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • “capsa”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

From capsă.

Verb edit

a capsa (third-person singular present capsează, past participle capsat) 1st conj.

  1. to staple, fasten

Conjugation edit

    conjugation of capsa (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
infinitive a capsa
gerund capsând
past participle capsat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present capsez capsezi capsează capsăm capsați capsează
imperfect capsam capsai capsa capsam capsați capsau
simple perfect capsai capsași capsă capsarăm capsarăți capsară
pluperfect capsasem capsaseși capsase capsaserăm capsaserăți capsaseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să capsez să capsezi să capseze să capsăm să capsați să capseze
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative capsează capsați
negative nu capsa nu capsați
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