decap

verb
/diːˈkæp/

Etymology

From de- + cap.

  1. derived from caput
  2. derived from cappa
  3. inherited from *kappā — “covering, hood, mantle
  4. inherited from cæppe
  5. inherited from cappe
  6. formed as decap — “de- + cap

Definitions

  1. To remove a cap.

  2. To change an uppercase letter to lowercase

    To change an uppercase letter to lowercase; to decapitalize.

    • In English this pronoun is always written with a capital letter, while "you", the second person singular, which in Russian out of courtesy we spell with a capital, is decapped in English.

The neighborhood

Derived

decapper

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for decap. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA