adjective
mājuscŭlus
Meaning
- somewhat greater
mājuscŭlus, a, um,
I. adj. dim. [major], somewhat greater or larger; somewhat great (rare but class.):
folia sunt majuscula, quam hederae, Plin. 26, 6, 16, § 30: cura, Cic. Fam. 9, 10, 3.—Of age, somewhat older: hanc vicinam dico lenonis hujus meretricem majusculam, Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 27: Thaïs, quam ego sum, majuscula est, Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 20.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
māiusculus adj. dim.
maior, somewhat greater, considerable : cura: Thaïs, quam ego sum, maiusculast, a little older , T.
In English words that came into English from mājuscŭlus
- majusculaemajusculae