receptáculo

See also: receptaculo

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin receptāculum (“receptacle”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.se.piˈta.ku.lu/ [he.se.piˈta.ku.lu], /ʁe.sepˈta.ku.lu/ [he.sepˈta.ku.lu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.se.piˈta.ku.lu/ [he.se.piˈta.ku.lu], /ʁe.sepˈta.ku.lu/ [he.sepˈta.ku.lu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁe.se.piˈta.ku.lu/ [χe.se.piˈta.ku.lu], /ʁe.sepˈta.ku.lu/ [χe.sepˈta.ku.lu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.sepˈta.ku.lo/ [he.sepˈta.ku.lo], /ʁe.se.piˈta.ku.lo/ [he.se.piˈta.ku.lo]

• Rhymes: -akulu
• Hyphenation: re‧cep‧tá‧cu‧lo

Noun

receptáculo m (plural receptáculos)

1. Brazil spelling of recetáculo
2. (European Portuguese spelling) Pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of recetáculo. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reθebˈtakulo/ [re.θeβ̞ˈt̪a.ku.lo] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /resebˈtakulo/ [re.seβ̞ˈt̪a.ku.lo] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -akulo
• Syllabification: re‧cep‧tá‧cu‧lo

Noun

receptáculo m (plural receptáculos)

1. receptacle

Related terms

• recepción
• receptar
• recibir

Further reading

• “receptáculo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024