culmen

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin culmen (“apex, acmé”).

culmen (plural culmens or culmina)

1. top; summit; acme

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2. (zoology) The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.
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• “culmen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.men/, [ˈkʊɫ̪mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkul.men/, [ˈkulmen]

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1. stalk
2. top, roof, summit
3. (figuratively) height, acme

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• “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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the summits of the Alps: culmina Alpium
    
• Collins Latin Dictionary, →ISBN

culmen m (plural cúlmenes)

1. height, epitome, high point