klimaks

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch climax, from Latin clīmax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax”), from κλίνω (klínō, “I lean, slant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈklimaks]
• Hyphenation: kli‧maks
• Rhymes: -maks, -aks, -ks, -s

Noun

klimaks (first-person possessive klimaksku, second-person possessive klimaksmu, third-person possessive klimaksnya)

1. climax:
   1. The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
   2. A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series.

Derived terms

• mengklimaks

 

Further reading

• “klimaks” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax”).

Noun

klimaks n (definite singular klimakset, indefinite plural klimaks or klimakser, definite plural klimaksa or klimaksene)

1. a climax

   Antonym: antiklimaks

Usage notes

• Prior to a 2021 spelling revision, this noun was also considered masculine.

References

• “klimaks” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax”).

Noun

klimaks n (definite singular klimakset, indefinite plural klimaks, definite plural klimaksa)

1. a climax

   Antonym: antiklimaks

Usage notes

• Prior to a 2021 spelling revision, this noun was also considered masculine.

References

• “klimaks” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkli.maks/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -imaks
• Syllabification: kli‧maks

Noun

klimaks m inan

1. (ecology) climax (the culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment)
2. (narratology) climax (the culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point)
3. (colloquial, medicine) climacterium

   Synonyms: klimakterium, menopauza, przekwitanie

4. (colloquial) climax, orgasm

   Synonyms: orgazm, szczytowanie

5. (rhetoric, literary) climax, incrementum (a rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order)

   Synonym: gradacja

6. (grammar) gradation, comparison (a feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe)

   Synonyms: gradacja, stopniowanie

Declension

Declension of klimaks

	singular	plural
nominative	klimaks	klimaksy
genitive	klimaksu	klimaksów
dative	klimaksowi	klimaksom
accusative	klimaks	klimaksy
instrumental	klimaksem	klimaksami
locative	klimaksie	klimaksach
vocative	klimaksie	klimaksy

Derived terms

adjective

• klimaksowy

 

noun

• antyklimaks

 

Further reading

• klimaks in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• klimaks in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klǐmaks/
• Hyphenation: kli‧maks

Noun

klìmaks m (Cyrillic spelling клѝмакс)

1. climax

Declension

Declension of klimaks

	singular	plural
nominative	klìmaks	klimaksi
genitive	klimaksa	klȉmāksā
dative	klimaksu	klimaksima
accusative	klimaks	klimakse
vocative	klimakse	klimaksi
locative	klimaksu	klimaksima
instrumental	klimaksom	klimaksima