капитель

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Russian

Pronunciation

Noun

капите́ль (kapitélʹf inan (genitive капите́ли, nominative plural капите́ли, genitive plural капите́лей)

  1. capital (architecture)
    • 1973, Михаил Булгаков, “Глава II. Понтий Пилат”, in Мастер и Маргарита; English translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., Master and Margarita, London: Penguin Books, 1997:
      В это время в колоннаду стремительно влетела ласточка, сделала под золотым потолком круг, снизилась, чуть не задела острым крылом лица медной статуи в нише и скрылась за капителью колонны.
      V eto vremja v kolonnadu stremitelʹno vletela lastočka, sdelala pod zolotym potolkom krug, snizilasʹ, čutʹ ne zadela ostrym krylom lica mednoj statui v niše i skrylasʹ za kapitelʹju kolonny.
      At that moment a swallow swiftly flitted into the colonnade, described a circle under the golden ceiling, swooped down, almost brushed the face of a bronze statue in a niche with its pointed wing, and disappeared behind the capital of a column.
  2. (typing) small caps

Declension