caixa

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈka(i̯)ʃa/
• Syllabification: cai‧xa
• Rhymes: -a(i̯)ʃa

caixa f

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

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

Inherited from Old Catalan caixa, from Latin capsa. Doublet of capsa. Compare Aragonese caixa, Occitan caissa and Sicilian caxa.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈka.ʃə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkaj.ʃa]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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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

   Coordinate term: metxa

• 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.

• capsa f

• → Asturian: caxa
• → Leonese: caixa
• → Sardinian: cascia
• → Sicilian: caxa, cascia

• “caixa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “caixa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “caixa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkajʃa/ [ˈkɑj.ʃɐ]
• Rhymes: -ajʃa
• Hyphenation: cai‧xa

caixa f (plural caixas)

1. box
2. coffin

   Synonyms: ataúde, cadaleito, féretro

3. (music) drum

   Synonym: tambor

4. cash desk
5. cash box, cash register
6. gearbox
7. savings bank

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “caixa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “caixa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “caixa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaj.ʃɐ/, /ˈkaj.ʃa/

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

• caxám

• “caixa”, in “Lexicon”, in Macanese Library, 2024
• Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988), “caixa”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 339

• caxa, quaxa

Inherited from Latin capsa. Cognate with Old Occitan caissa. First attested in the 13th century.^[1]

caixa f

1. box

• Catalan: caixa
  • → Asturian: caxa
  • → Leonese: caixa
  • → Sardinian: cascia
  • → Sicilian: caxa, cascia
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: caixa, cajxa, caxa, qajxa
  • Fala: caixa
  • Galician: caixa
  • Portuguese: caixa
    • Macanese: caixa
• → Old Spanish: caxa
  • Spanish: caja

• cajxa, caxa, qajxa

Borrowed from Old Catalan caixa,^[1] from Latin capsa, from Proto-Italic *kapsos, from *kapjō, from Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti, from *kap- + *-yéti. Cognate with Old Spanish caxa.

caixa f (plural caixas)

1. box

   Synonym: buxeta

   • 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

• Fala: caixa
• Galician: caixa
• Portuguese: caixa
  • Macanese: caixa

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “caxa”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “caixa”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cajxa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Old Galician-Portuguese caixa, borrowed from Old Catalan caixa, from Latin capsa. Compare Sicilian caxa, Spanish caja.

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: -ajʃɐ, -aʃɐ
• Hyphenation: cai‧xa

caixa f (plural caixas)

1. box
2. (music) snare drum

   Synonym: tarola

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.

• Macanese: caixa

caixa m (plural caixas)

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

• “caixa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “caixa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “caixa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• The Oxford Paperback Portuguese Dictionary, 1996