capital

      英['k?p?t(?)l] 美['k?p?tl]
      • n. 首都,省會;資金;大寫字母;資本家
      • adj. 首都的;重要的;大寫的
      • n. (Capital)人名;(法)卡皮塔爾

      詞態變化


      復數:?capitals;

      中文詞源


      capital 首都,資本

      來自詞根cap, 頭,詞義外延不斷擴大。

      英文詞源


      capital
      capital: [13] Etymologically, capital is something that is at the top or ‘head’; it comes from Latin caput ‘head’. The various current English uses of the word reached us, however, by differing routes. The first to come was the adjective, which originally meant simply ‘of the head’ (Milton in Paradise lost wrote of the Serpent’s ‘capital bruise’, meaning the bruise to its head); this came via Old French capital from Latin capitālis, a derivative of caput.

      The other senses of the adjective have derived from this: ‘capital punishment’, for instance, comes from the notion of a crime which, figuratively speaking, affects the head, or life. Its use as a noun dates from the 17th century: the immediate source of the financial sense is Italian capitale. The architectural capital ‘top of a column’ (as in ‘Corinthian capitals’) also comes from Latin caput, but in this case the intermediate form was the diminutive capitellum ‘little head’, which reached English in the 14th century via Old French capitel.

      => cattle, chapter, head
      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" (see capitulum). Meaning "main, principal, chief, dominant, most important" is from early 15c. in English. Capital letter for an upper case one is attested from late 14c. 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.

      A capital crime (1520s) is one that affects the life or "head;" capital had a sense of "deadly, mortal" from late 14c. in English, a sense also found in Latin. The felt connection between "head" and "life, mortality" also existed in Old English: as in heafodgilt "deadly sin, capital offense," heafdes tolian "to forfeit life." Capital punishment was in Blackstone (1765) and classical Latin capitis poena. Capital gain is recorded from 1921. Capital goods is recorded from 1899. Related: Capitally.
      capital (n.1)
      early 15c., "a capital letter," from capital (adj.). The meaning "capital city" is first recorded 1660s (the Old English word was heafodstol). The financial sense is from 1610s (Middle English had chief money "principal fund," mid-14c.), from Medieval Latin capitale "stock, property," noun use of neuter of capitalis "capital, chief, first." (The noun use of this adjective in classical Latin was for "a capital crime.")
      [The term capital] made its first appearance in medieval Latin as an adjective capitalis (from caput, head) modifying the word pars, to designate the principal sum of a money loan. The principal part of a loan was contrasted with the "usury"--later called interest--the payment made to the lender in addition to the return of the sum lent. This usage, unknown to classical Latin, had become common by the thirteenth century and possibly had begun as early as 1100 A.D., in the first chartered towns of Europe. [Frank A. Fetter, "Reformulation of the Concepts of Capital and Income in Economics and Accounting," 1937, in "Capital, Interest, & Rent," 1977]
      Also see cattle, and compare sense development of fee, pecuniary.
      capital (n.2)
      "head of a column or pillar," late 13c., from Anglo-French capitel, Old French chapitel, or directly from Latin capitellum "little head," diminutive of caput (see capitulum).

      雙語例句


      1. You have to take capital appreciation of the property into account.
      你必須將該處房產的資本增值考慮在內。

      來自柯林斯例句

      2. There are reports of widespread dis-content in the capital.
      有報道稱首都彌漫著不滿的情緒。

      來自柯林斯例句

      3. The President's unescorted vehicle was ambushed just outside the capital.
      剛出首都,總統無人護衛的汽車就遭到了伏擊。

      來自柯林斯例句

      4. What other home offers such a commanding view of the capital?
      還有其他的房子能像這幢一樣俯瞰首都嗎?

      來自柯林斯例句

      5. The radio said other parts of the capital also came under shellfire.
      廣播上說首都的其他地區也遭到了炮火襲擊。

      來自柯林斯例句


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