maiusculusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From maior (“more, greater”) +‎ -culus (diminutive suffix) (built on the originally s-final stem of the adjective, attested also in the neuter nominative 単数形 form maius).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mai̯ˈi̯us.ku.lus/, [mäi̯ˈi̯ʊs̠kʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈjus.ku.lus/, [mäˈjuskulus]

形容詞

maiusculus (feminine maiuscula, neuter maiusculum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Diminutive of maior: somewhat greater, larger or older

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

派生した語

• → Catalan: majúscul
• → French: majuscule
  • → English: majuscule, maiuscule
• → Italian: maiuscolo, maiuscola
• → Portuguese: maiúsculo
• → Romanian: majuscul
• → Spanish: mayúsculo

参照

• “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