English
Pronunciation
Noun
capital letter (plural capital letters)
- An upper-case letter (A, B, C, ... as opposed to a, b, c, ...), used for emphasis, for starting sentences and proper names, etc.
- Synonyms: big letter, capital, majuscule, upper-case letter, upper case (collectively), uppercase (collectively)
- Antonyms: lower-case letter, minuscule, small letter
Derived terms
Translations
- Afrikaans: hoofletter (af)
- Arabic: حَرْف كَبِير m (ḥarf kabīr)
- Gulf Arabic: حرف كبير m (ḥarf kbīr)
- Armenian: մեծատառ (hy) (mecataṙ)
- Azerbaijani: baş hərf
- Belarusian: вялі́кая лі́тара f (vjalíkaja lítara), вялі́кая бу́ква f (vjalíkaja búkva), загалоўная лі́тара f (zahalóŭnaja lítara), загалоўная бу́ква f (zahalóŭnaja búkva)
- Bulgarian: гла́вна бу́ква f (glávna búkva), голя́ма бу́ква f (goljáma búkva)
- Burmese: စာလုံးကြီး (calum:kri:)
- Catalan: lletra majúscula f, majúscula (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 大寫字母 / 大写字母 (zh) (dàxiě zìmǔ), 大寫 / 大写 (zh) (dàxiě)
- Czech: velké písmeno n, majuskule (cs) f
- Danish: stort bogstav n
- Dutch: hoofdletter (nl) f, majuskel (nl) m
- Esperanto: majusklo, ĉeflitero
- Finnish: suuraakkonen (fi), iso kirjain (fi), versaali (fi), versaalikirjain, majuskeli (fi)
- French: majuscule (fr) f
- Georgian: მთავრული (mtavruli), ასომთავრული (asomtavruli), დიდი ასო (didi aso)
- German: Großbuchstabe (de) m, Majuskel (de) f, Kapitalbuchstabe m, Versal (de) m, Versalbuchstabe m, Versalie (de) f
- Greek: κεφαλαίο γράμμα n (kefalaío grámma), κεφαλαίο (el) n (kefalaío)
- Hindi: बड़ा अक्षर m (baṛā akṣar)
- Hungarian: nagybetű (hu), majuszkula
- Icelandic: hástafur (is) m
- Indonesian: huruf besar
- Irish: ceannlitir f
- Italian: maiuscolo (it) m, maiuscola (it) f
- Japanese: 大文字 (ja) (おおもじ, ōmoji)
- Korean: 대문자(大文字) (ko) (daemunja)
- Macedonian: голема буква f (golema bukva)
- Malay: huruf besar
- Manx: kione-lettyr m, lettyr mooar m
- Maori: pūmatua
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: том үсэг (tom üseg)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: majuskel (no) m, versal (no) m
- Polish: majuskuła (pl), duża litera (pl) f, wielka litera (pl) f
- Portuguese: maiúscula (pt) f, letra maiúscula f
- Romanian: majusculă (ro) f, literă mare (ro) f
- Russian: прописна́я бу́ква (ru) f (propisnája búkva), загла́вная бу́ква (ru) f (zaglávnaja búkva), больша́я бу́ква f (bolʹšája búkva)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: велико слово n
- Roman: veliko slovo n
- Slovak: veľké písmeno n
- Slovene: velika začetnica f
- Spanish: mayúscula (es) f, letra mayúscula (es) f, mayúscula inicial f
- Swedish: stor bokstav (sv) c, versal (sv)
- Tagalog: malaking titik
- Thai: อักษรตัวใหญ่ (àk-sɔ̌ɔn-dtuua-yài)
- Turkish: büyük harf (tr), büyük (tr)
- Ukrainian: вели́ка лі́тера f (velýka lítera), вели́ка бу́ква f (velýka búkva), заголо́вна лі́тера f (zaholóvna lítera), заголо́вна бу́ква f (zaholóvna búkva)
- Uzbek: bosh harf, katta harf
- Vietnamese: chữ hoa
- Volapük: mayud (vo)
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- Interlingua: (please verify) majuscula, (please verify) littera majuscule
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