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capital
English
Alternative forms
- capitall (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English capital, borrowed from Latin capit?lis (“of the head”) (in sense “head of cattle”), from caput (“head”) (English cap). Use in trade and finance originated in Medieval economies when a common but expensive transaction involved trading heads of cattle.
Compare chattel and kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”), which also use “cow” to mean “property”.
This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?kæ.p?.t?l/
- Homophone: capitol
Noun
capital (countable and uncountable, plural capitals)
- (uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
- (uncountable, business, finance, insurance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
- (countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
- (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
- 2010 September, Charlie Brennan, "Active Athletes", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 83:
- Hollywood is the film capital, New York the theater capital, Las Vegas the gambling capital.
- 2010 September, Charlie Brennan, "Active Athletes", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 83:
- (countable) An uppercase letter.
- (countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
- (uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
- (countable, by extension) The chief or most important thing.
Usage notes
The homophone capitol refers only to a building, usually one that houses the legislative branch of a government, and often one located in a capital city.
Synonyms
- (An uppercase letter): caps (in the plural), majuscule
Antonyms
- (An uppercase letter): minuscule
Translations
Adjective
capital (not comparable)
- Of prime importance.
- 1708, Francis Atterbury, Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions : Preface
- a capital article in religion
- 1708, Francis Atterbury, Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions : Preface
- Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
- (comparable, Britain, dated) Excellent.
- Involving punishment by death.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 517:
- Some 1,600 priests were deported, for example, while the total number of capital victims of the military commissions down to 1799 was only around 150.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 517:
- Uppercase.
- Antonym: lower-case
- used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness
- Of or relating to the head.
Translations
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “capital”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- capital at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- palatic, placita
Asturian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin capit?lis.
Adjective
capital (epicene, plural capitales)
- capital
Noun
capital f (plural capitales)
- capital city (city designated as seat of government)
capital m (plural capitales)
- capital (money)
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin capit?lis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /k?.pi?tal/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ka.pi?tal/
Adjective
capital (feminine capitala, masculine plural capitals, feminine plural capitales)
- capital
Derived terms
- pena capital
- set pecats capitals
Noun
capital f (plural capitals)
- capital (city)
Noun
capital m (plural capitals)
- capital (finance)
Derived terms
- capitalisme
- capitalista
- capitalitzar
Further reading
- “capital” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin capit?lis. Doublet of cheptel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.pi.tal/
Noun
capital m (plural capitaux)
- capital (money and wealth)
Adjective
capital (feminine singular capitale, masculine plural capitaux, feminine plural capitales)
- capital (important)
- La peine capitale est abolie en France depuis les années 1980.
Derived terms
Related terms
- capitale
- capitaliser
- capitalisme
Further reading
- “capital” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- plaçait
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin capit?lis. Doublet of cabedal and caudal.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /k?.pi.?ta?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.pi.?taw/, [k?.p?.?t?ä??]
Noun
capital f (plural capitais)
- (geopolitics) capital; capital city (place where the seat of a government is located)
- (figuratively) capital (the most important place associated with something)
Noun
capital m (plural capitais)
- (finances) capital (money that can be used to acquire goods and services)
- (figuratively) anything of prime importance
Derived terms
- capitalismo
- capitalista
Adjective
capital m or f (plural capitais, comparable)
- capital (of prime importance)
- (law) capital (involving punishment by death)
- (rare, anatomy) capital (relating to the head)
Related terms
- cabeça
- cabedal
- cabo
- caput
- caudal
- per capita
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French capital, Latin capit?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.pi?tal/
Noun
capital n (plural capitaluri)
- (economics, business) capital
Declension
Adjective
capital m or n (feminine singular capital?, masculine plural capitali, feminine and neuter plural capitale)
- capital, important
Declension
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) chapital
- (Puter) chapitêl
Etymology
From Latin capit?lis, from caput (“head”).
Noun
capital m (plural capitals)
- (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) capital
Related terms
- capitala, tgapitala
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin capit?lis. Doublet of caudal.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kapi?tal/, [ka.pi?t?al]
- Rhymes: -al
Adjective
capital (plural capitales)
- capital (important)
Derived terms
- pecado capital
Noun
capital m (plural capitales)
- capital (finance)
Derived terms
Noun
capital f (plural capitales)
- capital (city)
Further reading
- “capital” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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store
English
Etymology
From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin instaur?.
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: stôr, IPA(key): /st??/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: stô, IPA(key): /st??/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: st?r, IPA(key): /sto(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /sto?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: stower (in some accents)
Noun
store (plural stores)
- A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
- A supply held in storage.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, II:13:
- But there was an infinite store of mercy in those eyes, for him too a word of pardon even though he had erred and sinned and wandered.
- By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began […] , under the superintendence of the pigs.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, II:13:
- (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
- 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75,
- In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.
- 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75,
- (computing, dated) Memory.
- A great quantity or number; abundance.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 37:
- I make my love engrafted to this store.
- 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro
- With store of Ladies, whose bright eies / Rain influence, and judge the prise / Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend / To win her Grace, whom all commend.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 37:
Synonyms
- (supply held in storage): stock, supply
- (place from which items may be purchased): boutique, shop (UK); see also Thesaurus:retail store
- (in computing): memory
Derived terms
Related terms
- storage
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: stua
- ? Rotokas: sitoa
- ? Afrikaans: stoor
Translations
Verb
store (third-person singular simple present stores, present participle storing, simple past and past participle stored)
- (transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
- Contain.
- The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.
- Have the capacity and capability to contain.
- They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.
- (transitive, computing) To write (something) into memory or registers.
Derived terms
Translations
References
- store at OneLook Dictionary Search
- store on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- store in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Resto, estro-, resto, roset, rotes, sorte, tores, torse
Danish
Adjective
store
- definite of stor
- plural of stor
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
store
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of storen
Anagrams
- roest, roste, stoer
French
Etymology
Latin storea (“mat”), via regional Italian stora (modern Italian stuoia).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??/
Noun
store m (plural stores)
- blind, shade (for a window)
Descendants
- ? Catalan: estor
- ? Galician: estor
- ? German: Store
- ? Portuguese: estore
Further reading
- “store” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
References
Anagrams
- resto, rotes, sorte, tores, torse
Latvian
Noun
store f (5th declension)
- sturgeon
Declension
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman stor, estour, ultimately from Latin instaurare.
Alternative forms
- stor, stoure, storre, stour, stoor, stoore
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??r/
Noun
store (uncountable)
- supplies, provisions
- livestock, farm animals
- (stored) possessions, savings
- collection, storage
- storehouse, storeroom
- value, importance
Descendants
- English: store
- Tok Pisin: stua
- ? Rotokas: sitoa
- ? Afrikaans: stoor
- Tok Pisin: stua
- Scots: store
References
- “st?r(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Etymology 2
From Old English st?r and Old Norse stórr, from Proto-Germanic *st?raz; some forms are also influenced by Middle Dutch stuur.
Alternative forms
- stoor, stour, stur, sture, storre, stowre, stoore, stoure
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sto?r/, /stu?r/, /st??r/
Adjective
store
- strong, powerful, intense
- violent, threatening, imposing
- stern, sharp, harsh
- numerous, large in number
- large, big, great
- coarse, rough
Descendants
- English: stoor, stour (archaic)
- Scots: stour, stoure, sture, stoor, stoar
References
- “st??r(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Adverb
store
- violently, threateningly, imposingly
- sternly, sharply, harshly
References
- “st??re, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Etymology 3
From Old English st?r; possibly from a Celtic language.
Alternative forms
- stor, stoure
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sto?r/
Noun
store
- incense, frankincense, storax
References
- “st??r(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
store
- definite singular of stor
- plural of stor
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
store
- definite singular of stor
- plural of stor
Swedish
Adjective
store
- absolute definite natural masculine form of stor.
Anagrams
- orets, rotes, teros
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