From en.wiktionary.org:
[uppercase]
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
Named for the original arrangement in typesetting, where the drawer or case
containing capital letters would traditionally be located above the one
containing small letters.[1]
*** Noun
[-]
1. The capital letter s A, B, C, ... as opposed to the small letters a, b, c, ....
**** Related terms
[en]
**** Translations
[capital letters]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Esperanto: [eo] [collective] , [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Maori: [mi]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [computing]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
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*** References
References:
[1]. Glossary of Typesetting Terms (see http://books..google.com/books?id=ewSglB2f7qYC&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=capital+uppercase+typesetting+term&source=web&ots=6tr9ttWJM7&sig=XVBi9LMycbrSTaYzeK4fPI7r8ZI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result) , by Richard Eckersley, Charles Ellerston, Richard Hendel, Page 18
*** Further reading
[Letter case]
*** Anagrams
- [en]