receptáculo

== Portuguese == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin receptāculum (“receptacle”). === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -akulu Hyphenation: re‧cep‧tá‧cu‧lo === Noun === receptáculo m (plural receptáculos) Brazil spelling of recetáculo (European Portuguese spelling) pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of recetáculo; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling === Further reading === “receptáculo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “receptáculo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == 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”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /reθebˈtakulo/ [re.θeβ̞ˈt̪a.ku.lo] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain) IPA(key): /resebˈtakulo/ [re.seβ̞ˈt̪a.ku.lo] (Latin America, Philippines) Rhymes: -akulo Syllabification: re‧cep‧tá‧cu‧lo === Noun === receptáculo m (plural receptáculos) receptacle ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “receptáculo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025