" capital "

[Adjective]  | "cap*i*tal" | \ ˈka-pə-tᵊl \

1: of or conforming to the series A, B, C, etc. rather than a, b, c, etc.

2: being the seat of government

3: chief in importance or influence

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English, "of the head, for the head (as a medication), chief, principal, (of a letter) larger than the other letters on the page (as an initial letter), deadly, mortal (of punishment, an enemy)," borrowed from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French, "of the head, chief, large (of a letter), mortal (of a sin)," borrowed from Medieval Latin capitālis "of or for the head, mortal, entailing loss of life (of a penalty or offense), initial (of a letter), chief, principal (of a city or religious house)," going back to Latin, "entailing loss of life (of a punishment or crime), deadly, implacable (of an enemy)," from capit-, caput "head, source, leading person, chief city of a state or province, a person's life when endangered or the target of a curse, one's life as forfeit for a crime" + -ālis {see: |-al:1|-al:1}{mat|head:1|};

  * Note : As a derivative, classical Latin capitālis reflects only extended senses of caput, as a metonym for a human life in regard to its exposure to danger or to forfeiture as a punishment; capitālis in the literal meaning "of the head" is only attested in post-classical Latin.;

[Adjective]  | "cap*i*tal-in*ten*sive" | \ ˈka-pə-tᵊl- in-ˈten(t)-siv \

1: having a high capital cost per unit of output; especially : requiring greater expenditure in the form of capital than of labor

Origin: 1959 ;

[Noun]  | "capital" 

1: a stock of accumulated goods especially at a specified time and in contrast to income received during a specified period; also : the value of these accumulated goods

2: accumulated goods devoted to the production of other goods

3: accumulated possessions calculated to bring in income

Origin: 15th century ;

 (sense 1) borrowed from Italian capitale "real or monetary assets, personal or corporate wealth," going back to Medieval Latin capitāle "movable property, riches," noun derivative from neuter of capitālis "of the head, chief, principal"; (sense 2) derivative of {see: |capital:1|capital:1} (sense 1), after Middle French capitale (by ellipsis from lettre capitale) or Medieval Latin capitālis (by ellipsis from littera capitālis); (sense 3) derivative of {see: |capital:1|capital:1} (sense 2a), after Middle French capitale (by ellipsis from ville capitale) {mat|capital:1|};

  * Note : The Italian word capitale was diffused into other western European languages due to the European significance of the Florentine banking houses. The meaning "movable property, patrimony, riches" of capitāle is attested in Latin from the ninth century (in the half-vernacular form catallum, from Chartres) and in Romance vernaculars: in the Gallo-Romance area (Old French chatel, in the dialect of Picardy and French Flanders catel—see: {cattle|cattle}, {chattel|chattel}; as Old Occitan capdal), in Iberia (Spanish caudal "property, abundance"), northern Italy (Upper Italian cavear [Genoa] "patrimony in money, riches," cavià [Asti], cavedale [Milan]—see: Lessico etimologico italiano); in Tuscany, capitale. The semantic logic behind a derived nominal sense "property" from an adjectival sense "of the head, chief, principal" (if these are even the relevant meanings) is less than transparent. Note, however, the use of caput to mean "head of cattle," a form of wealth, in the early Germanic laws (Lex Salica, Lex Allamanorum—see: Niemeyer, Mediae Latinitatis lexicon minus).;

[Noun]  | "capital" 

1: the uppermost member of a column or pilaster crowning the shaft and taking the weight of the entablature

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English capitale, borrowed from Anglo-French capital, capitel, borrowed from Late Latin capitellum, from Latin capit-, caput "head" + -ellum, neuter of -ellus, diminutive suffix, originally with noun stems ending in -ul-, -r- and -n-{mat|head:1|};

[Noun]  | "capital gain" 

1: the increase in value of an asset (such as stock or real estate) between the time it is bought and the time it is sold

Origin: 1921 ;

[Noun]  | "capital stock" 

1: the outstanding shares of a joint-stock company considered as an aggregate

2: capitalization

3: stock

Origin: 1709 ;

[Noun]  | "capital punishment" 

1: punishment by death : the practice of killing people as punishment for serious crimes

[Noun]  | "equity capital" 

1: capital (such as stock or surplus earnings) that is free of debt; especially : capital received for an interest in the ownership of a business

Origin: 1942 ;

[Noun]  | "human capital" 

1: the skills, knowledge, and qualifications of a person, group, or workforce considered as economic assets

Origin: 1799 ;

[Plural noun]  | "capital goods" 

1: capital

Origin: 1896 ;

[Noun]  | "capital" 

[Adjective]  | "capital"