cacumen
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cacumen (plural cacumina)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Cognate to Sanskrit ककुद् (kakúd, “peak, summit, point; head, chief; hump, projection; palate, tongue”), which similarly preserves the original sense of projection in any direction, and the particular sense of the humped shoulders of an animal. The semantics of the denominal verb are influenced by acūmen.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kaˈkuː.men/, [käˈkuːmɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kaˈku.men/, [käˈkuːmen]
Noun edit
cacūmen n (genitive cacūminis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cacūmen | cacūmina |
Genitive | cacūminis | cacūminum |
Dative | cacūminī | cacūminibus |
Accusative | cacūmen | cacūmina |
Ablative | cacūmine | cacūminibus |
Vocative | cacūmen | cacūmina |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: cacuminous, cacuminal
- Italian: cacume
References edit
- “cacumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cacumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cacumen 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)
- cacumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cacumen m (plural cacúmenes)
- (colloquial) acumen
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- Escopetas, carabinas, cuchillos, trampas, mil artificios ingeniosos, ora aprendidos, ora inventados por su propio genial cacumen, y que tenían por objeto apoderarse de la mitad del reino volátil, ocupaban una regular pieza.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (obsolete) peak; summit
Further reading edit
- “cacumen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014