upper case

See also: uppercase and upper-case

English

Alternative forms

• uppercase

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.

Noun

upper case (uncountable)

1. Collective term for the capital letters A, B, C, ... as opposed to the small letters a, b, c, ....

Synonyms

• majuscule
• (initialism) u/c

Antonyms

• lower case, mixed case, minuscule

Related terms

• all caps
• case dependent
• case insensitive
• case sensitive
• small caps

Translations

upper case / uppercase (as a collective noun) or upper case letters (in the plural)

• Catalan: majúscules (ca) f pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大寫／大写 (zh) (dàxiě), 大写 (zh) (dàxiě), 大寫字母／大写字母 (zh) (dàxiě zìmǔ), 大写字母 (zh) (dàxiě zìmǔ)

• Danish: store bogstaver n pl
• Esperanto: majusklaro (collective), majuskloj
• Finnish: versaali (fi), suuraakkonen (fi), iso kirjain
• French: majuscules (fr) f pl, haut-de-casse (fr) m pl
• German: Großbuchstaben (de) m pl, Großschreibung (de) f, Majuskeln (de) f pl, Versalien (de) pl, Versalbuchstaben m pl, Kapitalbuchstaben m pl
• Greek: κεφαλαία (el) n pl (kefalaía)
• Icelandic: stórir stafir m pl
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: maiuscoli m pl, lettere maiuscole f pl, caratteri maiuscoli m pl
• Japanese: 大文字 (ja) (おおもじ, ōmoji)
• Korean: 대문자 (ko) (daemunja)
• Latvian: lielie burti m pl
• Maori: pūmatua
• Polish: wersaliki m pl, majuskuły f pl, wielkie litery f pl
• Portuguese: maiúsculas f pl, caixas-altas f pl
• Romanian: litere mari (ro) f pl, majuscule f pl
• Russian: прописны́е бу́квы f pl (propisnýje búkvy), загла́вные бу́квы f pl (zaglávnyje búkvy), ве́рхний реги́стр m (vérxnij regístr) (computing)
• Spanish: mayúsculas (es) f pl
• Swedish: versaler (sv) c pl, stora bokstäver c pl

Further reading

Letter case on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• præpuces