capital
capital - English
Alternative forms
- capitall (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA: /ˈkæp.ɪ.təl/
- 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.
- He does not have enough capital to start a business.
- (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.
- (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
- (countable) An uppercase letter.
- (countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
- (uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
- Interpreters need a good amount of cultural capital in order to function efficiently in the profession.
- (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
Antonyms
- (An uppercase letter): minuscule
Translations
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Adjective
capital (not comparable)
- Of prime importance.
- Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
- London and Paris are capital cities.
- (comparable, Britain, dated) Excellent.
- That is a capital idea!
- (crime) Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
- Uppercase.
- Antonym: lower-case
- One begins a sentence with a capital letter.
- used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness
- You're a genius with a capital G!
- He's dead with a capital D!
- Of or relating to the head.
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Derived terms
- block capital
- block capitals
- capital-intensive
- capital account
- capital adequacy
- capital appreciation bond
- capital asset
- capital budgeting
- capital city
- capital crime
- capital equipment
- capital expenditure
- capital expense
- capital flight
- capital gain
- capital gains tax
- capital goods
- capital grant
- capital intensive
- capitalism
- capital loss
- capital market
- capital market line
- capital messuage
- capital murder
- capital offence
- capital offense
- capital punishment
- capital share
- capital ship
- capital stock
- capital structure
- capital surplus
- capital value
- cultural capital
- economic capital
- financial capital
- human capital
- intellectual capital
- make capital out of
- marginal cost of capital
- medial capital
- personal capital
- provincial capital
- real capital
- risk capital
- share capital
- small capital
- social capital
- state capital
- venture capital
- weighted-average cost of capital
- working capital
Related terms
Anagrams
capital - Asturian
Adjective
Noun
capital f (plural capitales)
- capital city (city designated as seat of government)
capital m (plural capitales)
- capital (money)
capital - Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA: /kə.piˈtal/
- (Valencian) IPA: /ka.piˈtal/
Adjective
capital (feminine capitala, masculine plural capitals, feminine plural capitales)
Derived terms
Noun
capital f (plural capitals)
- capital (city)
Noun
capital m (plural capitals)
- capital (finance)
Derived terms
- capitalisme
- capitalista
- capitalitzar
capital - French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ka.pi.tal/
Noun
capital m (plural capitaux)
- capital (money and wealth)
Adjective
capital (feminine capitale, masculine plural capitaux, feminine plural capitales)
- capital (important)
- La peine capitale est abolie en France depuis les années 1980.
Derived terms
Related terms
Anagrams
capital - Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA: /ˈka.pi.tal/, [ˈkäpɪt̪äɫ̪]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈka.pi.tal/, [ˈkäːpit̪äl]
Noun
capital n (genitive capitālis); third declension
- a capital offence; a crime punishable by death, civil death, or exile
- capital facere ― to commit a capital offence
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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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)
- (geopolitics) capital; capital city (place where the seat of a government is located)
- (figurative) 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)
- (figurative) anything of prime importance
Derived terms
Adjective
capital m or f (plural capitais)
- capital (of prime importance)
- (law) capital (involving punishment by death)
- (rare, anatomy) capital (relating to the head)
Related terms
capital - Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ka.piˈtal/
Noun
capital n (plural capitaluri)
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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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)
Declension
singular | plural | ||||||
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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)
- (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) capital
Related terms
capital - Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kapiˈtal/ [ka.piˈt̪al]
- Syllabification: ca‧pi‧tal
Adjective
capital (plural capitales)
- capital (important)
- Es asunto de capital importancia.
- This is a very important matter.
- capital (relating to a death sentence)
- Lo condenaron a la pena capital.
- He was sentenced to the death penalty.
Derived terms
Noun
capital m (plural capitales)
Derived terms
Noun
capital f (plural capitales)
- capital (city)