cápsula
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈka.pi.su.lɐ/, /ˈkap.su.lɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkap.su.la/, /ˈka.pi.su.la/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈka.psu.lɐ/
- Hyphenation: cáp‧su‧la
Noun
cápsula f (plural cápsulas)
- (pharmacy) capsule (small container containing a dose of medicine)
- (physiology) capsule (membranous envelope)
- (botany) capsule (seed-case)
- (astronautics) capsule (part of spacecraft containing crew’s living space)
- pod (small vehicle)
Further reading
- “cápsula” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “cápsula” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkabsula/ [ˈkaβ̞.su.la]
- Rhymes: -absula
- Syllabification: cáp‧su‧la
Noun
cápsula f (plural cápsulas)
- (pharmacy) capsule (small container containing a dose of medicine)
- (astronautics) capsule
- cápsula espacial ― space capsule
- cap, bottle cap
- cápsula de botella ― bottle cap
- (media) spot, bulletin (short program segment)
- cápsula de radio ― radio spot
- cápsula informativa ― news brief
Derived terms
Further reading
- “cápsula”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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