Noun
culmen n (genitive culminis); third declension
- stalk
- top, roof, summit, peak
- Synonyms: cacūmen, apex, vertex, fastīgium, summitās
- Antonym: fundus
- (figuratively) height, acme
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
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References
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “columen, -inis (> Derivatives: culmen, -inis)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 127
Further reading
- “culmen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “culmen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- culmen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- culmen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the summits of the Alps: culmina Alpium
- Collins Latin Dictionary, →ISBN