lower case

Etymology
Named for the original arrangement in typesetting, where the drawer or case containing minuscule letters would traditionally be located below the one containing capital letters.

Noun

 * 1) The minuscule or small letters (a, b, c, as opposed to the uppercase or capital letters, A, B, C).

Usage notes
Pedantically, and  describe type,  and  handwriting, while  and  are more generally applied to any letters, including painted, engraved, etc.

Coordinate terms

 * ALL CAPS
 * AlTeRnaTinG cApS
 * Initial Caps
 * Sentence case
 * Title Case
 * Title Case

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish: små bogstaver
 * Dutch: kleine letters, klein schrift, kleinschrift
 * Esperanto: minusklaro, minuskloj
 * Finnish:, , pieni kirjain
 * French:, , ,
 * Georgian: ქვედა რეგისტრი, მცირე ასოები, პატარა ასოები, ნუსხური
 * German: Kleinschrift,, , gemeine Buchstaben, Gemeinbuchstaben
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: litlir stafir
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Manx: lettryn beggey
 * Maori: pūriki
 * Portuguese: minúscules
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: стро́чные бу́квы, ни́жний реги́стр ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: gemener, små bokstäver
 * Volapük: minudem, minuds