# capsule
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French capsule, from Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa (“box”).

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈkæps(ə)l/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkæpsjuːl/
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈkæpʃuːl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

capsule (plural capsules)
* (physiology) A membranous envelope.
* (botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
* (botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
** 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 4-5:The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis, with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in Frullania spp.
* (anatomy) A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver
* (anatomy) A membrane that surrounds the eyeball
* (astronautics) A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
* (pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
* (attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
** 1962, John F. Kennedy, We choose to go to the moon:If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.
* (winemaking) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
* (chemistry, dated) A small clay saucer for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.
* A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
* A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
* One of the very small rooms for guests in a capsule hotel.
    Synonym: pod

#### Derived terms

* baby capsule
* biocapsule
* Bowman's capsule
* caplet
* capsular
* capsulate
* capsulation
* capsulectomy
* capsule hotel
* capsule of lens
* capsuler
* capsule review
* capsuliferous
* capsuliform
* capsuligenous
* capsulise
* capsulitis
* capsulize
* capsulogenesis
* capsulogenic
* capsuloligamentous
* capsulorhexis
* capsulotomy
* encapsule
* Glissonian capsule
* glomerular capsule
* intercapsule
* macrocapsule
* microcapsule
* nanocapsule
* nasal capsule
* pseudocapsule
* renal capsule
* sense capsule
* space capsule
* Spansule
* subcapsule
* synovial capsule
* tabsule
* Tenonian capsule
* Tenon's capsule
* time capsule

#### Translations

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### Verb

capsule (third-person singular simple present capsules, present participle capsuling, simple past and past participle capsuled)
* (transitive) To form (medicine, etc.) into capsules.
* (transitive) To encapsulate or summarize.

### Anagrams

* laces up, scale up, scaleup, specula, upscale

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French capsule, from Latin capsula. Doublet of kapsel.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌkɑpˈsy.lə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: cap‧su‧le
* Rhymes: -ylə

### Noun

capsule f (plural capsules, diminutive capsuletje n)
* (medicine, pharmacy) capsule (encapsulation containing drugs or supplements)
* cover over the cork and opening of a bottle

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin capsula, diminutive of capsa (whence caisse).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kap.syl/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

capsule f (plural capsules)
* capsule
* bottle cap
* cap or primer for a gun
* (Quebec) video or audio presentation

#### Derived terms

* capsulaire
* capsule temporelle
* décapsuler
* encapsuler

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: capsulă
* → Turkish: kapsül

### Further reading

* “capsule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* spécula

## Italian
### Noun

capsule f
* plural of capsula

### Anagrams

* lupesca, scapule, specula

## Spanish
### Verb

capsule
* inflection of capsular:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative