receptáculo

See also: receptaculo

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin receptāculum (“receptacle”).

Noun

receptáculo m (plural receptáculos)

1. Superseded spelling of recetáculo. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect.)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin receptāculum (“receptacle”), from receptō (“to receive back or again, recover”), frequentative of recipiō (“to receive; hold back, reserve”), from re- (“back, again”) + capiō (“to hold”).

Noun

receptáculo m (plural receptáculos)

1. receptacle

Related terms

• recepción
• receptar
• recibir

 

Further reading

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