cápsula
Portuguese
noun
Definitions
- (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
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin capsula (small box chest).
Origin
Latin
capsula
Gloss
small box chest
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- capsa Latin
- capsula Latin
- Kapsel German
- capsula Italian
- kapsel Dutch, Flemish
- capsule French
- cápsula Spanish, Castilian
- *keh₂p- Proto-Indo-European
- kapsel Norwegian Bokmål
- kapsel Swedish
- kapsel Norwegian Nynorsk
- càpsula Catalan, Valencian
- kapsel Middle High German
- Kapsel Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- kapsula Slovak