英语词汇“majuscule”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

majuscule

/ˈmadʒəskjuːl

noun [mass noun]

1Large lettering, either capital or uncial, in which all the letters are the same height: [as modifier]: Insular majuscule script...

Upper and lower case come from typesetting (the letters were kept in two cases, majuscule letters were kept in the upper case, the others in the lower case.
The majuscule letter V symbolizes a daughter of the Mother Goddess or the Mother Goddess as a virgin.
It was an angular majuscule script, often written without breaks between words or with words separated by dots.

1.1 [count noun] A large letter.The written and printed form of English has two interlocking systems of letters: large letters, known variously as capitals, upper-case letters, majuscules, and small letters, or lower-case letters, minuscules....

In one hand he holds an open book and with an prodigious index finger points to the victim with words in red Roman majuscules against the night sky.
It was more a matter of the development of a more mature pattern that was no longer a capital script but one that consisted of hybrid majuscules organized as a graphic system.

Derivatives

majuscular

/məˈdʒʌskjʊlə/ adjective

Origin

Early 18th century: from French, from Latin majuscula (littera) 'somewhat greater (letter)'.

单词	majuscule
释义	majuscule /ˈmadʒəskjuːl / noun [mass noun] 1Large lettering, either capital or uncial, in which all the letters are the same height: [as modifier]: Insular majuscule script... Upper and lower case come from typesetting (the letters were kept in two cases, majuscule letters were kept in the upper case, the others in the lower case. The majuscule letter V symbolizes a daughter of the Mother Goddess or the Mother Goddess as a virgin. It was an angular majuscule script, often written without breaks between words or with words separated by dots. 1.1 [count noun] A large letter.The written and printed form of English has two interlocking systems of letters: large letters, known variously as capitals, upper-case letters, majuscules, and small letters, or lower-case letters, minuscules.... In one hand he holds an open book and with an prodigious index finger points to the victim with words in red Roman majuscules against the night sky. It was more a matter of the development of a more mature pattern that was no longer a capital script but one that consisted of hybrid majuscules organized as a graphic system. Derivatives majuscular /məˈdʒʌskjʊlə/ adjective Origin Early 18th century: from French, from Latin majuscula (littera) 'somewhat greater (letter)'.
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