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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkæpɪtəl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [ˈkhæpɪthəl] ~ [ˈkhæpɪthl̩]
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• British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales: /ˈkapɪtəl/
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• British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales: [ˈkhapɪthəl] ~ [ˈkhapɪthl̩]
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• Canada, US: /ˈkæpɪtəl/
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• Canada, US: [ˈkhæpɪɾəl] ~ [ˈkhæpɪɾl̩]
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• Australian: /ˈkæpətəl/
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• Australian: [ˈkhæpəɾəl] ~ [ˈkhæpəɾl̩]
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• New-Zealand: /ˈkɛpətəl/
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• New-Zealand: [ˈkhɛpəɾəl] ~ [ˈkhɛpəɾl̩]
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• rhymes with -æpɪtəl
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• homophone: capitol
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• CMU ARPABET: K AE1 P AH0 T AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: K AE1 P IH0 T AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English capital, borrowed partly from Old French capital and partly from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (in sense “head of cattle”), from caput (“head”) (English cap) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives). 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. In the fourth sense, displaced native Old English hēafodburg, equivalent to head + borough (“city”). Compare chattel and kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”), which also use “cow” to mean “property”. Doublet of cattle and chattel.

Borrowed from Arabic ٱلْعَاصِمَةُ (l-ʕāṣimatu).

From Middle English capitale, partly from Old French capital and partly from Late Latin capitellum (“capital or chapiter of a column”), a form of Latin capitulum (“head-like object or structure; chapter”) (whence English capitulum, chapter, and the synonym chapiter (“uppermost part of a column”)), from caput (“head”) + -ulum (diminutive suffix). Doublet of caddie, cadel, cadet, capitellum, and caudillo.

297 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: главен (glaven) — of prime importance
• Bulgarian: основен (osnoven) — of prime importance
• Catalan: capital — of prime importance
• Chinese Mandarin: 主要的 (zhǔyào de) — of prime importance
• Dutch: hoofd- — of prime importance
• Dutch: kapitaal — of prime importance
• Finnish: ensisijainen — of prime importance
• Finnish: pääasiallinen — of prime importance
• Finnish: pää- — of prime importance
• German: Haupt- — of prime importance
• Greek: κεφαλαιώδης (kefalaiódis) — of prime importance
• Ancient Greek: κεφάλαιος (kephálaios) — of prime importance
• Hungarian: fontos — of prime importance
• Hungarian: lényeges — of prime importance
• Hungarian: jelentős — of prime importance
• Hungarian: döntő — of prime importance
• Italian: capitale — of prime importance
• Italian: principale — of prime importance
• Japanese: 主な (omo na) — of prime importance
• Japanese: 主要な (shuyō na) — of prime importance
• Korean: 중요하다 (jung'yohada) — of prime importance
• Korean: 주요하다 (juyohada) — of prime importance
• Portuguese: capital — of prime importance
• Portuguese: fundamental — of prime importance
• Russian: гла́вный (glávnyj) — of prime importance
• Russian: основно́й (osnovnój) — of prime importance
• Russian: капита́льный (kapitálʹnyj) — of prime importance
• Spanish: capital — of prime importance
• Swedish: huvudsaklig — of prime importance
• Catalan: excel·lent — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Chinese Mandarin: 優秀 /优秀 (yōuxiù) — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Dutch: uitstekend — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Dutch: excellent — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Finnish: mahtava — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Finnish: suurenmoinen — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Finnish: loistava — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Finnish: fantastinen — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• French: excellent — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• German: großartig — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Hungarian: remek — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Hungarian: ragyogó — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Hungarian: kitűnő — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Hungarian: príma — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Hungarian: nagyszerű — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Italian: ottimo — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Italian: magnifico — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Italian: eccellente — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Italian: splendido — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Japanese: 優れた (sugureta) — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Japanese: 素晴らしい (subarashii) — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Korean: 최고(最高)의 (choego-ui) — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Korean: 최상(最上)의 (choesang-ui) — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Portuguese: excelente — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Russian: превосхо́дный (prevosxódnyj) — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Russian: капита́льный (kapitálʹnyj) — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Russian: отли́чный (otlíčnyj) — ''(UK, dated)'' excellent
• Catalan: capital — punishable by, or involving punishment by, death
• Dutch: doodstraf — punishable by, or involving punishment by, death
• Dutch: dood — punishable by, or involving punishment by, death
• Finnish: kuolemalla rangaistava — punishable by, or involving punishment by, death
• French: capital — punishable by, or involving punishment by, death
• French: capitale — punishable by, or involving punishment by, death
• German: Kapital- — punishable by, or involving punishment by, death
• Hindi: मरण (maraṇ) — punishable by, or involving punishment by, death
• Hungarian: halál- — punishable by, or involving punishment by, death
• Hungarian: halálbüntetéssel büntetett/büntetendő — punishable by, or involving punishment by, death
• Hungarian: főbenjáró — punishable by, or involving punishment by, death
• Italian: capitale — punishable by, or involving punishment by, death
• Japanese: 致命的な (chimeiteki na) — punishable by, or involving punishment by, death
• Korean: 사형(死刑)의 (sahyeong-ui) — punishable by, or involving punishment by, death
• Malayalam: മരണ ശിക്ഷ (maraṇa śikṣa) — punishable by, or involving punishment by, death
• Portuguese: capital — punishable by, or involving punishment by, death
• Spanish: capital — punishable by, or involving punishment by, death
• Tagalog: kabisera — punishable by, or involving punishment by, death
• Armenian: մեծատառ (mecataṙ) — uppercase
• Bulgarian: главен (glaven) — uppercase
• Catalan: majúscula — uppercase
• Chinese Mandarin: 大寫的 /大写的 (dàxiě de) — uppercase
• Chinese Mandarin: 大寫 /大写 (dàxiě) — uppercase
• Dutch: hoofd — uppercase
• Finnish: versaali — uppercase
• Finnish: iso — uppercase
• French: majuscule — uppercase
• German: Groß- — uppercase
• Greek: κεφαλαίος (kefalaíos) — uppercase
• Hungarian: nagy — uppercase
• Hungarian: nagybetűs — uppercase
• Hungarian: nagy kezdőbetűs — uppercase
• Indonesian: kapital — uppercase
• Italian: maiuscolo — uppercase
• Japanese: 大文字の (ōmoji no) — uppercase
• Korean: 대문자(大文字)의 (daemunja-ui) — uppercase
• Polish: duży — uppercase
• Polish: duża — uppercase
• Portuguese: maiúsculo — uppercase
• Russian: загла́вный (zaglávnyj) — uppercase
• Russian: большо́й (bolʹšój) — uppercase
• Spanish: capital — uppercase
• Spanish: versal — uppercase
• Spanish: titular — uppercase
• Ukrainian: заголовний (zaholovnyj) — uppercase
• Volapük: mayudik — uppercase
• Hungarian: fej- — of or relating to the head
• Hungarian: feji — of or relating to the head
• Spanish: capital — of or relating to the head
• Spanish: capital — chief (in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation)
• Afrikaans: kapitaal — money and wealth
• Albanian: kapital — money and wealth
• Western Apache: haago zhaali nadehí bigozʼąąyú — money and wealth
• Arabic: رَأْسْمَال (raʔsmāl) — money and wealth
• Arabic: رَأْس مَال (raʔs māl) — money and wealth
• Arabic: رَأْسُ الْمَال (raʔsu l-māl) — money and wealth
• Arabic: راس المال (rās el-māl) — money and wealth
• Iraqi Arabic: سرمايه (sarmāye) — money and wealth
• Armenian: կապիտալ (kapital) — money and wealth
• Assamese: মূলধন (mulodhon) — money and wealth
• Azerbaijani: sərmayə — money and wealth
• Azerbaijani: maya — money and wealth
• Azerbaijani: kapital — money and wealth
• Belarusian: капіта́л (kapitál) — money and wealth
• Belarusian: бага́цце (baháccje) — money and wealth
• Belarusian: бага́цьце (bahácʹcje) — money and wealth
• Bengali: পুঁজি (pũji) — money and wealth
• Bulgarian: капита́л (kapitál) — money and wealth
• Burmese: အရင်း (a.rang:) — money and wealth
• Catalan: capital — money and wealth
• Cebuano: kapital — money and wealth
• Chinese Cantonese: 資本 /资本 (zi1 bun2) — money and wealth
• Eastern Min Chinese: 資本 /资本 (cṳ̆-buōng) — money and wealth
• Hakka Chinese: 資本 /资本 (chṳ̂-pún) — money and wealth
• Chinese: 資本 /资本 (zh-min-nan) — money and wealth
• Chinese Mandarin: 資本 /资本 (zīběn) — money and wealth
• Wu Chinese: 資本 /资本 (1tsy-pen) — money and wealth
• Xiang Chinese: 資本 /资本 (zi1 ben3) — money and wealth
• Czech: kapitál — money and wealth
• Danish: kapital — money and wealth
• Dutch: kapitaal — money and wealth
• Esperanto: kapitalo — money and wealth
• Estonian: kapital — money and wealth
• Finnish: pääoma — money and wealth
• French: capital — money and wealth
• Galician: capital — money and wealth
• Galician: fondo — money and wealth
• Galician: fondos — money and wealth
• Georgian: კაპიტალი (ḳaṗiṭali) — money and wealth
• German: Kapital — money and wealth
• Greek: κεφάλαιο (kefálaio) — money and wealth
• Greek: σερμαγιά (sermagiá) — money and wealth
• Gujarati: પૂંજી (pū̃jī) — money and wealth
• Hebrew: הוֹן (hon) — money and wealth
• Hindi: पूंजी (pūñjī) — money and wealth
• Hindi: मूलधन (mūldhan) — money and wealth
• Hindi: पूँजी (pūñjī) — money and wealth
• Hindi: संपद (sampad) — money and wealth
• Hindi: सरमाया (sarmāyā) — money and wealth
• Hungarian: tőke — money and wealth
• Icelandic: fjármagn — money and wealth
• Ido: kapitalo — money and wealth
• Indonesian: modal — money and wealth
• Indonesian: kapital — money and wealth
• Irish: caipiteal — money and wealth
• Italian: capitale — money and wealth
• Japanese: 資本 (shihon) — money and wealth
• Kazakh: қаражат (qarajat) — money and wealth
• Kazakh: капитал (kapital) — money and wealth
• Khmer: មូល (muul) — money and wealth
• Khmer: មូលធន (muulĕəʼthŭən) — money and wealth
• Khmer: ធន (thŭən) — money and wealth
• Khmer: ទុន (tun) — money and wealth
• Korean: 자본 (jabon) — money and wealth
• Northern Kurdish: sermiyan — money and wealth
• Northern Kurdish: kapîtal — money and wealth
• Kyrgyz: капитал (kapital) — money and wealth
• Lao: ທຶນ (thưn) — money and wealth
• Lao: ຕົ້ນທຶນ (ton thưn) — money and wealth
• Latvian: kapitāls — money and wealth
• Lithuanian: kapitalas — money and wealth
• Macedonian: капита́л (kapitál) — money and wealth
• Malay: modal — money and wealth
• Malay: kapital — money and wealth
• Malayalam: മൂലധനം (mūladhanaṁ) — money and wealth
• Maltese: kapital — money and wealth
• Manx: bun-argid — money and wealth
• Māori: moni haupū rawa — money and wealth
• Māori: moni haupū — money and wealth
• Māori: pūrawa — money and wealth
• Māori: (moni) pūrawa — money and wealth
• Marathi: भांडवल (bhāṇḍval) — money and wealth
• Mongolian: капитал (kapital) — money and wealth
• Mongolian: хөрөнгө (xöröngö) — money and wealth
• Nepali: पूँजी (pũnji) — money and wealth
• Norwegian Bokmål: kapital — money and wealth
• Pashto: سرمايه (sarmāyá) — money and wealth
• Dari: سَرْمَایَه (sarmāya) — money and wealth
• Dari: رَأْسُ ٱلْمَال (ra'su l-māl) — money and wealth
• Iranian Persian: سَرْمایِه (sarmâye) — money and wealth
• Iranian Persian: رَأْسُ ٱلْمال (ra'so l-mâl) — money and wealth
• Polish: kapitał — money and wealth
• Portuguese: capital — money and wealth
• Romanian: capital — money and wealth
• Romansh: chapital — money and wealth
• Romansh: capital — money and wealth
• Romansh: chapitêl — money and wealth
• Russian: капита́л (kapitál) — money and wealth
• Russian: состоя́ние (sostojánije) — money and wealth
• Russian: бога́тство (bogátstvo) — money and wealth
• Scottish Gaelic: airgead-calpa — money and wealth
• Serbo-Croatian: капѝта̄л — money and wealth
• Serbo-Croatian: kapìtāl — money and wealth
• Slovak: kapitál — money and wealth
• Slovene: kapital — money and wealth
• Spanish: capital — money and wealth
• Swahili: rasilimali — money and wealth
• Swedish: kapital — money and wealth
• Tagalog: kabisera — money and wealth
• Tagalog: kapital — money and wealth
• Tajik: сармоя (sarmoya) — money and wealth
• Telugu: పెట్టుబడి (peṭṭubaḍi) — money and wealth
• Telugu: సంపద (sampada) — money and wealth
• Thai: ทุน (tun) — money and wealth
• Turkish: anapara — money and wealth
• Turkish: anamal — money and wealth
• Turkish: sermaye — money and wealth
• Turkish: kapital — money and wealth
• Ottoman Turkish: سرمایه (sermaye) — money and wealth
• Turkmen: kapital — money and wealth
• Ukrainian: капіта́л (kapitál) — money and wealth
• Ukrainian: бага́тство (bahátstvo) — money and wealth
• Urdu: سَرْمایَہ (sarmāya) — money and wealth
• Urdu: پُون٘جی (pūñjī) — money and wealth
• Urdu: رَأْسُ ٱلْمال (ra'su l-māl) — money and wealth
• Uyghur: كاپىتال (kapital) — money and wealth
• Uyghur: دىر (dir) — money and wealth
• Uyghur: دەسمايە (desmaye) — money and wealth
• Uyghur: سەرمايە (sermaye) — money and wealth
• Uzbek: kapital — money and wealth
• Uzbek: sarmoya — money and wealth
• Vietnamese: vốn — money and wealth
• Vietnamese: chính — money and wealth
• Vietnamese: tư bản — money and wealth
• Volapük: katäd — money and wealth
• Welsh: cyfalaf — money and wealth
• Yiddish: קאַפּיטאַל (kapital) — money and wealth
• Spanish: capital — capital letter
• Spanish: versal — capital letter
• Spanish: titular — capital letter
• Arabic: تَاج العَمُود (tāj al-ʕamūd) — uppermost part of a column
• Armenian: խոյակ (xoyak) — uppermost part of a column
• Azerbaijani: kapitel — uppermost part of a column
• Basque: kapitel — uppermost part of a column
• Belarusian: капітэль (kapitelʹ) — uppermost part of a column
• Bulgarian: капите́л (kapitél) — uppermost part of a column
• Catalan: capitell — uppermost part of a column
• Chinese Cantonese: 柱頭 /柱头 (cyu5 tau4) — uppermost part of a column
• Chinese Mandarin: 柱頭 /柱头 (zhùtóu) — uppermost part of a column
• Czech: hlavice — uppermost part of a column
• Danish: kapitæl — uppermost part of a column
• Dutch: kapiteel — uppermost part of a column
• Esperanto: kapitelo — uppermost part of a column
• Estonian: kapiteel — uppermost part of a column
• Finnish: kapiteeli — uppermost part of a column
• French: chapiteau — uppermost part of a column
• Galician: capitel — uppermost part of a column
• Georgian: კაპიტელი (ḳaṗiṭeli) — uppermost part of a column
• German: Kapitell — uppermost part of a column
• German: Säulenkopf — uppermost part of a column
• Greek: κιονόκρανο (kionókrano) — uppermost part of a column
• Hebrew: כּוֹתֶרֶת (kotéret) — uppermost part of a column
• Hebrew: צֶפֶת (tséfet) — uppermost part of a column
• Hungarian: oszlopfő — uppermost part of a column
• Icelandic: súluhöfuð — uppermost part of a column
• Ido: kapitelo — uppermost part of a column
• Indonesian: kapital — uppermost part of a column
• Italian: capitello — uppermost part of a column
• Japanese: 柱頭 (chūtō) — uppermost part of a column
• Korean: 주두 (judu) — uppermost part of a column
• Latvian: kapitelis — uppermost part of a column
• Lithuanian: kapitelis — uppermost part of a column
• Macedonian: капител (kapitel) — uppermost part of a column
• Norwegian Bokmål: kapitel — uppermost part of a column
• Occitan: capitèl — uppermost part of a column
• Persian: سر ستون (sar sotun) — uppermost part of a column
• Polish: kapitel — uppermost part of a column
• Polish: głowica — uppermost part of a column
• Portuguese: capitel — uppermost part of a column
• Romanian: capitel — uppermost part of a column
• Russian: капите́ль (kapitélʹ) — uppermost part of a column
• Serbo-Croatian: капѝтел — uppermost part of a column
• Serbo-Croatian: kapìtel — uppermost part of a column
• Slovak: hlavica — uppermost part of a column
• Slovene: kapitel — uppermost part of a column
• Spanish: capitel — uppermost part of a column
• Swedish: kapitäl — uppermost part of a column
• Turkish: sütun başı — uppermost part of a column
• Ottoman Turkish: باشلق (başlık) — uppermost part of a column
• Ukrainian: капіте́ль (kapitélʹ) — uppermost part of a column
• Uzbek: kapital — uppermost part of a column