receptáculo

Learned borrowing from Latin receptāculum (“receptacle”).

receptáculo m (plural receptáculos)

1. Superseded spelling of recetáculo. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere.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.)

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”).

receptáculo m (plural receptáculos)

1. receptacle

• “receptáculo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014