# capsa
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capsa. Doublet of caixa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈkap.sə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈkap.sa]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

capsa f (plural capses)
* box

#### Usage notes

* 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.

#### Derived terms

* capsa de música
* capseta
* encapsar

#### Related terms

* caixa
* càpsida
* càpsula

#### Further reading

* “capsa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Italian
### Etymology

Latinism, borrowed from Latin capsa. Doublet of cassa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈka.psa/
* Rhymes: -apsa
* Hyphenation: cà‧psa

### Noun

capsa f (plural capsae)
* (historical, Ancient Rome) a cylindrical container used chiefly to store books
* a drawer where archived documents are stored

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* caspa, pasca

## Latin
### Etymology

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. Compare Latin noxa from noceō, also Ancient Greek σκᾰ́ψᾱς (skắpsās), masculine nominative active indicative aorist participle of σκάπτω (skáptō) (not cognate with the Latin term).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkap.sa/, [ˈkäps̠ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkap.sa/, [ˈkäpsä]

### Noun

capsa f (genitive capsae); first declension
* A box, case, holder, repository; especially a cylindrical container for books; bookcase.

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Synonyms

* (pot): olla
* (bookcase): librārium, pēgma
* (box): scrīnium

#### Derived terms

* capsārius
* capsella
* *capseus (Vulgar Latin)
* capsicum
* capsula
* capsus

#### Related terms

* capiō
* capta
* captābilis
* captātiō
* captātor
* captātōrius
* captātrīx
* captensula
* captiō
* captiōsē
* captiōsus
* captitō
* captiuncula
* captīva
* captīvātiō
* captīvātor
* captīvitās
* captīvō
* captīvus
* captō
* captor
* captrīx
* captūra
* captus

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: cassa (see there for further descendants)
* North Italian:
** Emilian: cassa
** Lombard: cassa
** Venetan: casa
*** →⇒ Cimbrian: kèssle
* Gallo-Romance:
** Old French: chasse
*** French: châsse
**** → English: chase
*** → Middle English: chasse
**** English: chasse
** Old Northern French: casse, case, quase
*** Norman: câsse
*** → Middle English: cas
**** English: case
**** → Irish: cás
* Occitano-Romance:
** Catalan: caixa (see there for further descendants)
** Old Occitan: caissa
*** Occitan: caissa; caisha (Gascon, south Lengadocian)
**** → Emilian: cascia
**** → Ligurian: càscia
**** → Lombard: cascia
**** → Piedmontese: cassia, cascia
**** → Romagnol: cascia
**** → Romansch: chascha
*** → Middle French: caisse
**** French: caisse
**** → Bourguignon: caisse
**** → English: cash
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: caixa, caxa
** ⇒ *capseum (see there for further descendants)
* Borrowings:
** → Aramaic: קפסא (qapsa), קופסא (qup̄sā)
*** → Hebrew: קופסה (kufsá)
** → Catalan: capsa
** → Czech: kapsa
** → Italian: capsa
** → Romanian: capsă
* ⇒ New Latin: capsicum
** → English: capsicum
** → Italian: capsico
** → Portuguese: cápsico
** → Translingual: Capsicum

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “capsa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 90-1
* ↑ “capsa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “caja”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 740

### Further reading

* “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
### Etymology

From capsă.

### Verb

a capsa (third-person singular present capsează, past participle capsat) 1st conjugation
* to staple, fasten