caja

caja

1. woman

• John R. Roberts, Amele Organised Phonology Data (1998)

• challa (Unified Alphabet)

caja (Raguileo spelling)

1. cooking pot

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

caja

1. gerundive of cajati (“to give up”)^[1]

caja

1. imperative active second-person singular of cajati (“to give up”)

Probably borrowed from Catalan caixa or Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa. (Latin /-ps-/ yields palatal outcomes in the latter two, but not in Spanish; cf. Latin ipse > Spanish ese, Catalan eixe.) Related to English case and cash and, more distantly, Spanish quijada.

Cognate with Asturian and Aragonese caxa (“box”), French caisse (“box”), châsse (“case, reliquary”), Galician, Mirandese, and Portuguese caixa (“box”), Italian cassa (“case”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaxa/ [ˈka.xa]

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• Rhymes: -axa
• Syllabification: ca‧ja

caja f (plural cajas)

1. box, case
2. bank
3. cash desk
4. cash register, register, cash box

   Synonym: caja registradora

5. gearbox
6. snare drum
7. (typography) case

• → Cebuano: kaha
• → Tagalog: kaha

• “caja”, 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
• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “caja”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[1] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 740

• jaca