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) Pre-reform spelling (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”).

Noun

receptáculo m (plural receptáculos)

1. receptacle

Related terms

• recepción
• receptar
• recibir

 

Further reading

• “receptáculo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014