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recipiente

recipiente

Italian

Noun

recipiente m (plural recipienti)

  1. container, vessel
    • 1826, Lorenzo Palatino, Storia di Pozzuoli: e contorni con breve tratto istorico di Ercolano, Pompei, Stabia, e Pesto, Dalla tip. di L. Nobile, page 265:
      Nel centro dell’ atrio, ed in uno recipiente di acqua, che suole esservi in tutte le abitazioni di Pompei, si rinvenne su di una base di marmo una cerva di bronzo, e sopra eravi seduto un giovine Ercole di perfettissima bellezza.
      In the centre of the atrium, and in a water container, that usually exists in every residence of Pompey, one finds above a marble base a bronze hind, and above sat a young Hercules of perfect beauty.

Synonyms


Latin

Participle

recipiente

  1. ablative masculine singular of recipiēns
  2. ablative feminine singular of recipiēns
  3. ablative neuter singular of recipiēns

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin recipientem, from recipiō (I take back; I receive), from re- + capiō.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁe.ˌsi.pi.ˈẽ.t͡ʃi/
  • (South Brazil) IPA(key): /he.ˌsi.pi.ˈẽ.te/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʁɨsiˈpjẽtɨ/

Noun

recipiente m (plural recipientes)

  1. vessel; container (item in which objects may be stored and transported)

Synonyms

Adjective

recipiente m, f (plural recipientes, not comparable)

  1. in which objects may be stored and transported

Related terms


Spanish

Etymology

From recibir.

Noun

recipiente m (plural recipientes)

  1. vessel, container