cápsula
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- (pharmacy) capsule small container containing a dose of medicine
- (astronautics) capsule
- cap, bottle cap
- (media) spot, bulletin short program segment
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
- *keh₂p- Proto-Indo-European
- kapsel Norwegian Bokmål
- cápsula Portuguese
- kapsel Swedish
- kapsel Norwegian Nynorsk
- càpsula Catalan, Valencian
- kapsel Middle High German
- Kapsel Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- kapsula Slovak