maiusculus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

mājuscŭlus, a, um, adj. dim. [maior],

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. 526.

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