culmen
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin culmen (“apex, acme”).
Noun edit
culmen (plural culmens or culmina)
- Top; summit.
- 1681, Balm from Gilead:
- the Shibboleth and Culmen of Honesty
- (zoology) The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.
- 1997 June 20, “A Role for Ecotones in Generating Rainforest Biodiversity”, in Science[1], volume 276, number 5320, , pages 1855–1857:
- The measurements were taken as follows: wing length, from the carpal joint to the tip of the longest primary; tarsus length, from the tibiotarsal joint to the distal undivided scute; upper mandible length, the chord length from the point where the culmen enters the feathers of the head to the tip; bill depth, in the vertical plane level at the anterior edge of the nares.
- 1910, Alfred M. Tozzer, Glover M. Allen, Animal Figures in the Maya Codices[2]:
- A very simple form was found in the carving shown in Pl. 17, fig. 13, where a long projecting knob is seen at the base of the culmen.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “culmen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *kolamen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-. Doublet of columen.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkul.men/, [ˈkʊɫ̪mɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkul.men/, [ˈkulmen]
Noun edit
culmen n (genitive culminis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | culmen | culmina |
Genitive | culminis | culminum |
Dative | culminī | culminibus |
Accusative | culmen | culmina |
Ablative | culmine | culminibus |
Vocative | culmen | culmina |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “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[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the summits of the Alps: culmina Alpium
- the summits of the Alps: culmina Alpium
- Collins Latin Dictionary, →ISBN
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin culmen. Doublet of cumbre.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
culmen m (plural cúlmenes)
Further reading edit
- “culmen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014