Dose.
box (container made from metal or plastic, less often wood)
Meaning & usage
box (container made from metal or plastic, less often wood)
tin, can (air-tight container for food)
socket
vagina, vulva
Where this word comes from
Spread via the Lower Rhineland from Middle Low German dōse and Middle Dutch dose. Probably from Latin dosis (“dose”), with semantic shift "a small amount (dose) of medicine" > "a container of such a dose of medicine" > "containers in general".
a (small) moor in northwestern Germany (now chiefly in placenames)
Where this word comes from
From German Low German Dose, Döse, Dös, "moor", "light-coloured layer in a peat moor", or from its source, Middle Low German dose (“light-coloured peat”). Perhaps related to German Dost. Some sources have suggested a possible connection to dösig, but if there is any connection, it is not obvious.
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