capital vs risk capital

risk capital vs capital

capital and risk capital both are nouns.

capital is an adjective but risk capital is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
capital	Yes	Yes	No	No
risk capital	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, risk capital is a hyponym of capital; that is, risk capital is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than capital:

capital: assets available for use in the production of further assets
risk capital: wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises

Other hyponyms of capital include stock, venture capital, operating capital, seed money, active capital, borrowed capital.

capital (noun)	risk capital (noun)
the upper part of a column that supports the entablature	wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises
one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
a seat of government
a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
assets available for use in the production of further assets

capital (adjective)	risk capital (adjective)
of principal importance
first-rate
uppercase

Difference between capital and risk capital

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