അർത്ഥം : The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case.
പര്യായപദങ്ങൾ : lower-case letter, minuscule, small letter
One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis.
Printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters.അർത്ഥം : Relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case.
ഉദാഹരണം :
Lowercase letters; a and b and c etc.
Relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case.
Uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc.