Dictionary

majuscule en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmædʒəskjuːl/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from French majuscule, from Latin majuscula (littera).

Meanings

1. (countable) A capital letter, especially one used in ancient manuscripts.
2. (uncountable) Capital letters.
   • Up to this point, Loveday appeared to be an exceptionally typical undergraduate, in that he wrote in majuscule what his fellows scribbled in lower case. 1951, Arthur Calder-Marshall, The Magic of My Youth, R. Hart-Davis, page 111:
   • Many of these strips are palimpsest and bear earlier writing in majuscule and old minuscule. 1975, Aubrey Diller, The Textual Tradition of Strabo’s Geography: With Appendix, the Manuscripts of Eustathius’ Commentary on Dionysius Periegetes, A. M. Hakkert, →ISBN, page 47:
   • But it is far from impossible that a scribe writing in minuscule should choose majuscule for a correction at this point: for example, if he had written u for n the only way to avoid all misunderstanding might be to indicate the correction with a capital letter. 1972, Wiener Studien, H. Böhlaus, →ISBN, page 89:

Forms

Antonyms

minuscule

Deriveds

majuscule writing · majusculed · majuscular

Translations (4)

es mayúscula (upper-case letter) · es versal (upper-case letter) · es titular (upper-case letter) · es letra mayúscula (upper-case letter)