mayúsculo

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin maiusculus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /maˈʝuskulo/ [maˈʝus.ku.lo]
IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /maˈʃuskulo/ [maˈʃus.ku.lo]
IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /maˈʒuskulo/ [maˈʒus.ku.lo]

Rhymes: -uskulo
Syllabification: ma‧yús‧cu‧lo

Adjective

mayúsculo (feminine mayúscula, masculine plural mayúsculos, feminine plural mayúsculas)

upper case, uppercase
Antonym: minúsculo
(colloquial) big, tremendous
Synonym: grandísimo

Derived terms

letra mayúscula

Further reading

“mayúsculo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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