receptáculo
See also: receptaculo
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin receptāculum (“receptacle”).
Noun
receptáculo m (plural receptáculos)
- Superseded spelling of recetáculo. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)
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
Related terms
- receptar
- recepción
- recibir
Further reading
- “receptáculo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014