maiusculus
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From maior (“more, greater”) + -culus (diminutive suffix) (built on the originally s-final stem of the adjective, attested also in the neuter nominative singular form maius).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /mai̯ˈi̯us.ku.lus/, [mäi̯ˈi̯ʊs̠kʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /maˈjus.ku.lus/, [mäˈjuskulus]
Adjective edit
maiusculus (feminine maiuscula, neuter maiusculum); first/second-declension adjective
- Diminutive of maior: somewhat greater, larger or older
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | maiusculus | maiuscula | maiusculum | maiusculī | maiusculae | maiuscula | |
| Genitive | maiusculī | maiusculae | maiusculī | maiusculōrum | maiusculārum | maiusculōrum | |
| Dative | maiusculō | maiusculō | maiusculīs | ||||
| Accusative | maiusculum | maiusculam | maiusculum | maiusculōs | maiusculās | maiuscula | |
| Ablative | maiusculō | maiusculā | maiusculō | maiusculīs | |||
| Vocative | maiuscule | maiuscula | maiusculum | maiusculī | maiusculae | maiuscula | |
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: majúscul
- → French: majuscule
- → Italian: maiuscolo, maiuscola
- → Portuguese: maiúsculo
- → Romanian: majuscul
- → Spanish: mayúsculo
References edit
- “maiusculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “maiusculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers