cacumen

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin cacūmen. === Noun === cacumen (plural cacumina) (obsolete, physics) The smallest possible piece of matter, making up part of an atom. == Latin == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kaˈkuː.mɛn] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kaˈkuː.men] === Noun === cacūmen n (genitive cacūminis); third declension peak, extremity, top, summit Synonyms: vertex, apex, culmen, fastīgium, summitās Antonym: fundus end, limit Synonyms: līmes, fīnis, modus (grammar) accent mark placed over a letter ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). ==== Derived terms ==== cacūminō ==== Descendants ==== ⇒ English: cacuminous, cacuminal, cacuminate Italian: cacume === References === “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, 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 == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin cacūmen. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kaˈkumen/ [kaˈku.mẽn] Rhymes: -umen Syllabification: ca‧cu‧men === Noun === cacumen m (plural cacúmenes) (colloquial) acumen (obsolete) peak; summit === Further reading === “cacumen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025