Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for June 10, 2021 is: majuscule \MAJ-uh-skyool\ noun : a large letter (such as a capital) Examples: "At least the random emphatic majuscules on blogs are uncommon enough to make a rhetorical impression, though perhaps one not quite worthy of Serious Journalism." — [Katy Waldman, Slate, 25 Aug. 2016](https://slate.com/technology/2016/08/why-does-the-internet-insert-random-capital-letters-into-the-middle-of-sentences.html) "It is the name Meyer-Decker—the eleven letters, the two majuscules, the hyphen that's a bridge to grander things—which ambushes him, which jumps from its inky thicket and assails him at last." — [Jonathan Meades, Pompey, 1993](https://books.google.com/books?id=BF8uCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT177&lpg=PT177&dq=%22the+eleven+letters,+the+two+majuscules%22&source=bl&ots=td8Dkhlum2&sig=ACfU3U2NudstdsvGfiOnwD1UtH-Ahiz-Vw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjUjZjgirjwAhXSHM0KHdFLDikQ6AEwAHoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=%22the%20eleven%20letters%2C%20the%20two%20majuscules%22&f=false) Did you know? Majuscule looks like the complement to [minuscule](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/minuscule), and the resemblance is no coincidence. [Minuscule](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/minuscule) appeared in the early 18th century as a word for a lowercase letter, then later as the word for certain ancient and medieval writing styles which had "small forms." Minuscule then acquired a more general adjectival use for anything very small. Majuscule is the counterpart to minuscule when it comes to letters, but it never developed a broader sense (despite the fact that its Latin ancestor majusculus has the broad meaning "rather large"). The adjective [majuscule](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/majuscule#other-words) also exists, as does its synonym majuscular. Not surprisingly, the adjectives share the noun's specificity, referring only to large letters or to a style using such letters.