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Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin receptāculum (“receptacle”), from receptō (“to receive back or again, to recover”), frequentative of recipiō (“to receive; to hold back, to reserve”), from re- (“back, again”) + capiō (“to hold”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: re‧ce‧tá‧cu‧lo
Noun
recetáculo m (plural recetáculos)
- receptacle