Cap·​i·​tal

The city or town that functions as the seat of government and administrative centre of a country or region.

Wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available for a purpose such as starting a company or investing.

(Of an offense or charge) liable to the death penalty.

(Of a letter of the alphabet) large in size and of the form used to begin sentences and names.

Used to express approval, satisfaction, or delight.

Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘relating to the head or top’, later ‘standing at the head or beginning’): via Old French from Latin capitalis, from caput ‘head’.