Noun
vertex (plural vertices or vertexes)
- The highest point, top or apex of something.
- Synonyms: acme, apex, peak, top
- Antonym: fundus
- (anatomy) The highest surface on the skull; the crown of the head.
- (geometry) An angular point of a polygon, polyhedron or higher order polytope.
- The common point of the two rays that form an angle.
- The point at which an axis meets a curve or surface.
- (mathematics) A point on the curve with a local minimum or maximum of curvature.
- (graph theory) One of the elements of a graph joined or not by edges to other vertices.
- Synonym: node
- Coordinate term: plot
- (computer graphics) A point in 3D space, usually given in terms of its Cartesian coordinates.
- (optics) The point where the surface of a lens crosses the optical axis.
- (particle physics) An interaction point.
- (astrology) The point where the prime vertical meets the ecliptic in the western hemisphere of a natal chart.
- (typography) A sharp downward point opposite a crotch, as in the letters "V" and "W" but not "Y".
- Coordinate term: apex
Translations
highest point
- Aragonese: vértiz m
- Bulgarian: връх (bg) m (vrǎh)
- Catalan: vèrtex (ca) m
- Czech: vrchol (cs) m
- Danish: toppunkt n
- Dutch: toppunt (nl)
- Finnish: huippu (fi)
- French: sommet (fr) m
- Georgian: ზენიტი (zeniṭi)
- German: Spitze (de) f, Gipfel (de) m, Scheitelpunkt (de) m, Gipfelpunkt (de) m
- Hebrew: פסגה (he) f (pisga)
- Hungarian: csúcs (hu), csúcspont (hu), tetőpont (hu)
- Ingrian: kukkula
- Italian: vertice (it) m
- Japanese: 頂 (ja) (いただき, itadaki), 頂点 (ja) (ちょうてん, chōten)
- Lithuanian: viršūnė f
- Macedonian: врв (mk) m (vrv)
- Maori: akitu
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: toppunkt n
- Plautdietsch: Spetz f
- Polish: wierzchołek (pl) m
- Portuguese: cume (pt) m, vértice (pt) m, topo (pt) m
- Russian: верши́на (ru) f (veršína), верху́шка (ru) f (verxúška)
- Serbo-Croatian: vrh (sh) m
- Slovak: vrchol m
- Spanish: cumbre (es) f, vértice (es) m
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corner of a polygon or polyhedron
point where the surface of an optical element crosses the optical axis
physics: interaction point
- Finnish: vuorovaikutuspiste
- Italian: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: please add this translation if you can
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Translations to be checked: "point of intersection of an axis and a curve"
Noun
vertex m (genitive verticis); third declension
- whirl, whirlpool, eddy, vortex
- eddy of wind or flame, whirlwind, coil of flame
- (literally, anatomy) top, crown of the head
- (poetic) head
- vacuus vertex ― an empty head
- pole of the heavens (north or south)
- highest point, top, peak, summit (of a mountain, house, tree, etc.)
- Synonyms: cacūmen, apex, culmen, fastīgium, summitās
- Antonym: fundus
- a vertice ― frome above/at the top
- in verticem ― upright/vertically
- (figurative, poetic) highest, uttermost, greatest
Descendants
- Lombard: vierdza, verdza, értes, vértisa (“parting of the hair”)
- Piedmontese: verdz̆a (“peak”)
- Romansch: viertsch, vertscha
Early borrowings:
- → Old French: vertiz (“top of the head”)
- → Old Occitan: vertitz, vertis
Later borrowings:
References
- “vertex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vertex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vertex 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)
- vertex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the pole: vertex caeli, axis caeli, cardo caeli
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vĕrtex”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 14: U–Z, page 320
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “vĕrtex”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 706
Noun
vertex n (uncountable)
- vertex
Declension
More information singular, indefinite articulation ...
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indefinite articulation |
definite articulation |
nominative/accusative |
(un) vertex |
vertexul |
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(unui) vertex |
vertexului |
vocative |
vertexule |
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declension of vertex (singular only)