culmen
English
noun
Definitions
- Top; summit.
- (zoology) The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin culmen (peak, the highest point, acm, summit, apex).
Origin
Latin
culmen
Gloss
peak, the highest point, acm, summit, apex
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
岳, 峰
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- culminicorn English
- culmen Latin
- culminatus Latin
- culmino, culminare Latin
- culminer French
- *kelH- Proto-Indo-European
- cume Portuguese
- kulminera Swedish
- cume Galician
- cumial Galician
- cumieira Galician
- cumio Galician
- culme Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- culmã Aromanian
- *kolamen Proto-Italic