supercapital

[ soo-per-kap-i-tl ]

noun

, Architecture.

1. a member situated between a capital and the spring of an arch, as a dosseret.

Word History and Origins

Origin of supercapital¹

super- + capital ²

Example Sentences

Like Brussels in today’s EU, Athens became a supercapital.

From Wall Street Journal

It was there that Speer and Hitler designed Germania, the muscular “supercapital” that Berlin was to become if the Nazis won the war.

From The Verge