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caixa alta

Portuguese, noun

caixa alta is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “all-caps” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, caixa-alta is a different word: “upper case (capital letters, collectively)”.

What does caixa alta mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineall-caps

noun

as caixa-alta
  1. 1

    feminineupper case (capital letters, collectively)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

phrase: 1. estilo de letra em que todas as letras são maiúsculas, sendo a primeira maior do que as outras

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of caixa alta

  • caixas-altas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).