majusculae

Unadapted borrowing from Latin majusculae, feminine plural form of majusculus (“somewhat greater or great”), diminutive of major, majus.

majusculae pl (plural only)

1. capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier

• minusculae

• “majusculæ”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

majusculae

1. inflection of majusculus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine plural
   2. genitive/dative feminine singular