capital

Etymology 1
From, borrowed partly from and partly from   (in sense “head of cattle”), from  (🇨🇬) +. Use in trade and finance originated in Medieval economies when a common but expensive transaction involved trading heads of cattle. The noun is from the adjective.

Compare and, which also use “cow” to mean “property”.

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Noun

 * 1)  Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
 * 2)  Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
 * 3)  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.
 * 4)  The most important city in the field specified.
 * 5) * 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.
 * 1)  An uppercase letter.
 * 2)  Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
 * 3)  The chief or most important thing.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1)  An uppercase letter.
 * 2)  Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
 * 3)  The chief or most important thing.
 * 1)  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

 * (in the plural), majuscule

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: haago zhaali nadehí bigozʼąąyú
 * Arabic:, رَأْس مَال
 * Egyptian Arabic: راس المال
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: মূলধন
 * Azerbaijani: sərmayə,, kapital
 * Belarusian: капіта́л,
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: kapital
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kapital
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kapitalo
 * Estonian: kapital
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, , fondos
 * Georgian: კაპიტალი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: પૂંજી
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: पूंजी,, , ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: caipiteal
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: қаражат, капитал
 * Khmer:, ,
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ທຶນ,
 * Macedonian: капитал
 * Malay: modal
 * Malayalam:
 * Manx: bun-argid
 * Maori: moni haupū rawa, moni haupū, pūrawa
 * Marathi: भांडवल
 * Nepali: पूँजी
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Ottoman Turkish: سرمایه
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: chapital, capital , chapitêl
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: airgead-calpa
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: капѝта̄л
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: kapitál
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kabisera, kapital
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: سَرْمایَہ
 * Uyghur: كاپىتال, دىر
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: קאַפּיטאַל


 * Interlingua: (1,2)
 * Somali:

Adjective

 * 1) Of prime importance.
 * 2) Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
 * 3)  Excellent.
 * 4)  Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
 * 5) Uppercase.
 * 6) Of or relating to the head.
 * 1)  Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
 * 2) Uppercase.
 * 3) Of or relating to the head.
 * 1)  Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
 * 2) Uppercase.
 * 3) Of or relating to the head.
 * 1) Uppercase.
 * 2) Of or relating to the head.
 * 1) Of or relating to the head.
 * 1) Of or relating to the head.
 * 1) Of or relating to the head.
 * 1) Of or relating to the head.
 * 1) Of or relating to the head.
 * 1) Of or relating to the head.
 * 1) Of or relating to the head.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: hoofd-,
 * Finnish:, , pää-
 * German: Haupt-
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κεφάλαιος
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese: 優れた,
 * Korean: 최고(最高)-의, 최상(最上)-의
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: kuolemalla rangaistava
 * French: ,
 * German: Kapital-
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:,  halálbüntetéssel büntetett/büntetendő,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 사형(死刑)-의
 * Malayalam: മരണ ശിക്ഷ
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: kabisera


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: hoofd(letter)
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: Groß-
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:,  , nagy kezdőbetűs
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 대문자(大文字)-의
 * Polish:, duża
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Volapük: mayudik


 * Hungarian: ,


 * Interlingua: (1);  (2)

Etymology 2
From, partly from and partly from , a form of  (whence English , , and the synonym ), from  +. .

Noun

 * 1)   The uppermost part of a column.

Translations

 * Arabic: تَاج العَمُود
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: kapitel
 * Basque: kapitel
 * Belarusian: капітэль
 * Bulgarian: капите́л
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 柱頭
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kapitelo
 * Estonian: kapiteel
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: კაპიტელი
 * German:, Säulenkopf
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: súluhöfuð
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 주두(柱頭)
 * Latvian: kapitelis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: капител
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: باشلق
 * Persian: سر ستون
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: капѝтел
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: hlavica
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: sütun başı
 * Ukrainian: капіте́ль
 * Uzbek:

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  city designated as seat of government

Noun

 * 1)  (money)

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  city

Noun

 * 1)  finance

Etymology
..

Noun

 * 1)  money and wealth

Adjective

 * 1)  important

Etymology
Substantive form of.

Noun

 * 1) a capital offence; a crime punishable by death, civil death, or exile

Etymology
Borrowed from. .

Noun

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

Noun

 * 1)    money that can be used to acquire goods and services
 * 2)   anything of prime importance

Adjective

 * 1)   of prime importance
 * 2)    involving punishment by death
 * 3)    relating to the head

Etymology
,.

Adjective

 * , important

Etymology
From, from.

Etymology
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