capital

See also: capitâl

capital - English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA: /ˈkæp.ɪ.təl/
  • Homophone: capitol

Noun

capital (countable and uncountable, plural capitals)

  1. (uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
  2. (uncountable, business, finance, insurance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
    • He does not have enough capital to start a business.
  3. (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.
    • Washington D.C. is the capital of the United States of America.
    • The Welsh government claims that Cardiff is Europe’s youngest capital.
  4. (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
  5. (countable) An uppercase letter.
  6. (countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
  7. (uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
    • Interpreters need a good amount of cultural capital in order to function efficiently in the profession.
  8. (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.

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Antonyms

Translations

  • Arabic: تَاج العَمُود m (tāj al-ʕamūd)
  • Armenian: խոյակ (hy) (xoyak)
  • Azerbaijani: kapitel
  • Basque: kapitel
  • Belarusian: капітэль f (kapitelʹ)
  • Bulgarian: капите́л m (kapitél)
  • Catalan: capitell (ca) m
  • Chinese:
  • Czech: hlavice (cs) f
  • Danish: kapitæl (da) c
  • Dutch: kapiteel (nl) n
  • Esperanto: kapitelo
  • Estonian: kapiteel
  • Finnish: kapiteeli (fi)
  • French: chapiteau (fr) m
  • Galician: capitel (gl) m
  • Georgian: კაპიტელი (ḳaṗiṭeli)
  • German: Kapitell (de) n, Säulenkopf m
  • Greek: κιονόκρανο (el) n (kionókrano)
  • Hebrew: כּוֹתֶרֶת (he) f (kotéret), צֶפֶת (he) f (tséfet) (rare)
  • Hungarian: oszlopfő
  • Icelandic: súluhöfuð n
  • Ido: kapitelo (io)
  • Indonesian: kapital (id)
  • Italian: capitello (it) m
  • Japanese: 柱頭 (ja) (ちゅうとう, chūtō)
  • Korean: 주두(柱頭) (judu)
  • Latvian: kapitelis m
  • Lithuanian: kapitelis (lt) m
  • Macedonian: капител m (kapitel)
  • Norwegian:
  • Occitan: capitèl (oc) m
  • Ottoman Turkish: باشلق (başlık)
  • Persian: سر ستون (sar sotun)
  • Polish: kapitel (pl) m, głowica (pl) f
  • Portuguese: capitel (pt) m
  • Romanian: capitel (ro) m
  • Russian: капите́ль (ru) f (kapitélʹ)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic: капѝтел m
    • Roman: kapìtel (sh) m
  • Slovak: hlavica f
  • Slovene: kapitel (sl) m
  • Spanish: capitel (es) m
  • Swedish: kapitäl (sv) c
  • Turkish: sütun başı
  • Ukrainian: капіте́ль f (kapitélʹ)
  • Uzbek: kapital (uz)

Adjective

capital (not comparable)

  1. Of prime importance.
  2. Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
    • London and Paris are capital cities.
  3. (comparable, Britain, dated) Excellent.
    • That is a capital idea!
  4. (crime) Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
  5. Uppercase.
    • Antonym: lower-case
    • One begins a sentence with a capital letter.
    1. used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness
      • You're a genius with a capital G!
      • He's dead with a capital D!
  6. Of or relating to the head.

Translations

Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun or adjective capital

Anagrams

capital - Asturian

Adjective

capital (epicene, plural capitales)

  1. capital

Noun

capital f (plural capitales)

  1. capital city (city designated as seat of government)

capital m (plural capitales)

  1. capital (money)

capital - Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA: /kə.piˈtal/
  • (Valencian) IPA: /ka.piˈtal/

Adjective

capital (feminine capitala, masculine plural capitals, feminine plural capitales)

  1. capital

Derived terms

Noun

capital f (plural capitals)

  1. capital (city)

Noun

capital m (plural capitals)

  1. capital (finance)

Derived terms

capital - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ka.pi.tal/

Noun

capital m (plural capitaux)

  1. capital (money and wealth)

Adjective

capital (feminine capitale, masculine plural capitaux, feminine plural capitales)

  1. capital (important)
    • La peine capitale est abolie en France depuis les années 1980.

Derived terms

Anagrams

capital - Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA: /ˈka.pi.tal/, [ˈkäpɪt̪äɫ̪]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈka.pi.tal/, [ˈkäːpit̪äl]

Noun

capital n (genitive capitālis); third declension

  1. a capital offence; a crime punishable by death, civil death, or exile
    • capital facereto commit a capital offence

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative capital capitālia
Genitive capitālis capitālium
Dative capitālī capitālibus
Accusative capital capitālia
Ablative capitālī capitālibus
Vocative capital capitālia

capital - Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA: /ka.piˈtaw/ [ka.piˈtaʊ̯]
  • (Portugal) IPA: /kɐ.piˈtal/ [kɐ.piˈtaɫ]
  • Hyphenation: ca‧pi‧tal

Noun

capital f (plural capitais)

  1. (geopolitics) capital; capital city (place where the seat of a government is located)
  2. (figurative) capital (the most important place associated with something)

Noun

capital m (plural capitais)

  1. (finances) capital (money that can be used to acquire goods and services)
  2. (figurative) anything of prime importance

Derived terms

Adjective

capital m or f (plural capitais)

  1. capital (of prime importance)
  2. (law) capital (involving punishment by death)
  3. (rare, anatomy) capital (relating to the head)

capital - Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ka.piˈtal/

Noun

capital n (plural capitaluri)

  1. (economics, business) capital

Declension

singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) capital capitalul (niște) capitaluri capitalurile
genitive/dative (unui) capital capitalului (unor) capitaluri capitalurilor
vocative capitalule capitalurilor

Adjective

capital m or n (feminine singular capitală, masculine plural capitali, feminine and neuter plural capitale)

  1. capital, important

Declension

singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/ accusative indefinite capital capitală capitali capitale
definite capitalul capitala capitalii capitalele
genitive/ dative indefinite capital capitale capitali capitale
definite capitalului capitalei capitalilor capitalelor

capital - Romansch

Alternative forms

Noun

capital m (plural capitals)

  1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) capital

capital - Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /kapiˈtal/ [ka.piˈt̪al]
  • Syllabification: ca‧pi‧tal

Adjective

capital (plural capitales)

  1. capital (important)
    • Es asunto de capital importancia.
      • This is a very important matter.
  2. capital (relating to a death sentence)

Derived terms

Noun

capital m (plural capitales)

  1. (finance) capital

Derived terms

Noun

capital f (plural capitales)

  1. capital (city)
Meaning and Definition of capital
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