" capital stock "

[Noun]  | "capital stock" 

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

2: capitalization

3: stock

Origin: 1709 ;

[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"