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Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin receptāculum (“receptacle”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁe.se.piˈta.ku.lu/ , /ʁe.sepˈta.ku.lu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ʁe.se.piˈta.ku.lu/ , /ʁe.sepˈta.ku.lu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁe.sepˈta.ku.lo/ , /ʁe.se.piˈta.ku.lo/
- Rhymes: -akulu
- Hyphenation: re‧cep‧tá‧cu‧lo
Noun
receptáculo m (plural receptáculos)
- Brazil spelling of recetáculo
- (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)
- receptacle
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