capital
capital 英 [ˈkæpɪtl] 美 [ˈkæpɪtl]
n. 首都；资本；大写字母 adj. 首都的；大写的
名词复数:capitals
- Capital is the total amount of money (and things with a monetary value, like houses or cars) that a person or institution owns. A bank's capital might be in the billions, while your capital barely makes it into the hundreds.
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- n. 首都；资本；大写字母
- adj. 首都的；大写的
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1. Cairo is the capital of Egypt.
开罗是埃及的首都。
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2. to set up a business with a starting capital of £100 000
以 10 万英镑为启动资金创办一个企业
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3. capital and labour
资方与劳方
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4. Please write in capitals. Please write in capital letters.
请用大写字母书写。
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5. English is written with a capital ‘E’.
*English 一词中字母 E 大写。
- capital (adj.) early 13c., "of or pertaining to the head," from Old French capital, from Latin capitalis "of the head," hence "capital, chief, first," from caput (genitive capitis) "head" (from PIE root *kaput- "head"). Meaning "main, principal, chief, dominant, first in importance" is from early 15c. in English. The modern informal sense of "excellent, first-rate" is dated from 1762 in OED (as an exclamation of approval, OED's first example is 1875), perhaps from earlier use of the word in reference to ships, "first-rate, powerful enough to be in the line of battle," attested from 1650s, fallen into disuse after 1918. Related: Capitally.
- capital (n.1) early 15c., "a capital letter," from capital (adj.). The meaning "city or town which is the official seat of government" is first recorded 1660s (the Old English word was heafodstol; Middle English had hevedburgh). For the financial sense see capital (n.2).
- capital (n.2) 1610s, "a person's wealth," from Medieval Latin capitale "stock, property," noun use of neuter of Latin capitalis "capital, chief, first" (see capital (adj.)). From 1640s as "the wealth employed in carrying on a particular business," then, in a broader sense in political economy, "that part of the produce of industry which is available for further production" (1793).
- capital (n.3) "head of a column or pillar," late 13c., from Anglo-French capitel, Old French chapitel (Modern French chapiteau), or directly from Latin capitellum "head of a column or pillar," literally "little head," diminutive of caput "head" (from PIE root *kaput- "head").
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