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caixa

Aragonese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin capsa. Compare Catalan caixa, Occitan caissa and Sicilian cascia.

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Noun

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caixa f

  1. box
  2. (finance) savings bank
  3. (woodworking) mortise

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin capsa. Doublet of capsa. Compare Aragonese caixa, Occitan caissa and Sicilian cascia.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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caixa f (plural caixes)

  1. box
  2. (finance) savings bank
    • 2019, “Sento”, in Energia fosca, performed by El Petit de Cal Eril:
      Coses inútils com les caixes o els bancs / Coses terribles com les bales o els tancs
      Useless things like boxes or banks / Terrible things like bullets or tanks
  3. (woodworking) mortise

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  • There is a semantic difference in the usage of caixa and capsa according to their size. Boxes larger than a shoebox are usually called caixa, while boxes smaller than a shoebox (e.g. for matches, confectionery, pills) are capsa.

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Descendants

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  • → Asturian: caxa
  • → Leonese: caixa
  • → Old Galician-Portuguese: cajxa
  • → Old Spanish: caxa
  • → Sardinian: cascia
  • → Sicilian: caxa, cascia

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese cajxa~qajxa (compare Portuguese caixa), probably borrowed from Catalan caixa, from Latin capsa. Compare Spanish caja.

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Noun

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caixa f (plural caixas)

  1. box
    • 1426, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Historia de la Santa A. M. Iglesia de Santiago de Compostela, XI, nº Adicións-1.1, pages 79-92:
      iten outras duas cruzes; a hua pequena, en que esta lyno domini, cuberta de follas douro, que adoran esta feyra mayor, et esta gardada en hua cayxa de madeyro; et a outra cruz mays grande, en que esta haun cruçifiçio con duas omajees, et dous escudos de armas de bendaña, et outros dous escudos con dous leoos, et o pee byrtado dela, et he toda de prata dourada
      item, two more crosses: a small one, in which is "lyno domini", covered with gold leaf, that they adore this major feast, and is kept in a wooden box; another larger cross, in which is a crucifix with two images, and two coat of arms of the Bendaña family, and another two coats with two lions, and its foot is broken, and is made of gilded silver
  2. coffin
    Synonyms: ataúde, cadaleito, féretro
  3. (music) drum
    Synonym: tambor
  4. cash desk
  5. cash box, cash register
  6. gearbox
  7. savings bank

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Macanese

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Etymology

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From Portuguese caixa (“box”). Unusually, de-diphthongization did not take place (compare caxám, Spanish caja).

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkaj.ʃɐ/, /ˈkaj.ʃa/

Noun

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caixa

  1. small copper coin
  2. measure of weight, one tenth of the condorim, formerly used in Macau to weigh silver used as currency in commercial transactions
  3. camphor or teak trunk, engraved with Chinese drawings and intended for storing clothes
  4. box
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Portuguese

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Uma caixa sem tampa

Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese cajxa~qajxa, probably borrowed from Catalan caixa, from Latin capsa. Compare Sicilian cascia, Spanish caja.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkaj.ʃɐ/ [ˈkaɪ̯.ʃɐ], /ˈka.ʃɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkaj.ʃa/ [ˈkaɪ̯.ʃa], /ˈka.ʃa/

Noun

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caixa f (plural caixas)

  1. box
  2. (music) snare drum
    Synonym: tarola

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Noun

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caixa m or f by sense (plural caixas)

  1. cashier (one who works at a till handling payments)
    Synonym: caixeiro
    Aquele caixa trabalha bem. ― That cashier works well.

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Noun

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caixa m (plural caixas)

  1. ledger
  2. a cash register and the counter upon which it resides

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