causela

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

14th century ("cousela"). From Late Latin *capsella (capsule; little box).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kowˈsela̝/, /kawˈsela̝/

Noun

causela f (plural causelas)

  1. receptacle
    • 1390, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C, page 1:
      vn rromeu alamã cõ outros de sua cõpana tomou hũa grã presa de dineiros de prata et ofereçeos sobre la cousela da cabeça de Santiago
      a pilgrim from Germany, with others from his group, took a large handful of silver coins and offered them over the receptacle of the head of Saint James
  2. case, casket (a little box, for jewellery or for keeping the communion wafers)
    • 1418, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 111:
      Iten que destes vos o dito Gil Peres por hũa cousela para levar as petiçoes a a Reyna, tres moravedis et por çera para seelar as peticões quatro blanquas et por papel para os testimoyos et traslados et petições hũu moravedi
      Item, that you, the aforementioned Gil Peres, gave, for a box for taking the petitions to the Queen, three moravedis, and for wax for sealing the petitions four brancas, and for paper for the testimonies, and copies, and petitions, a moravedi
    • 1426, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Historia de la Santa A. M. Iglesia de Santiago de Compostela, XI, nº Adicións-1.1, pp. 79-92:
      outro relicario en que anda a espina da coroa de Ihu. Xpo., et ten dous angeletes et hua cousela en medeo de beril, en que está a dita espina
      another reliquary which contains a thorn of the crown of Jesus Christ, and it has two little angels and a little box in the middle, made in beryl, that holds the aforementioned thorn
  3. box which takes the cereal from the hopper and drops it over the millstone, regulating the pace

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