kapitalizować

Adapted borrowing of French capitaliser +‎ -ować.^[1][2][3] Sense 2 is a semantic loan from English capitalize. First attested in 1832.^[4]

• IPA^(key): /ka.pi.ta.liˈzɔ.vat͡ɕ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔvat͡ɕ
• Syllabification: ka‧pi‧ta‧li‧zo‧wać

kapitalizować impf (perfective skapitalizować)

1. (transitive, economics) to capitalize (to add interest to invested capital after a certain period of time, which causes the amount of interest in the next period)
2. (transitive, economics) to capitalize (to convert into capital, i.e., to get cash or similar immediately fungible resources for some less fungible property or source of future income)

   Synonym: spieniężać

3. (transitive, literary) to capitalize (to acquire a pool of knowledge, experience and skills)
4. (reflexive with się, economics) to be capitalized

kapitalizować impf

1. (transitive, economics) to capitalize (to convert an economy or part of it to a capitalist structure)
3. (transitive, typography) to capitalize (in writing or editing, to write in capital letters, in upper case)

• kapitalizować in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kapitalizować in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “kapitalizować”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 243