culmen
English
Noun
culmen (plural culmens or culmina)
- top; summit; acme
- (Can we find and add a quotation of R. North to this entry?)
- (zoology) The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.
- 1997 June 20, “A Role for Ecotones in Generating Rainforest Biodiversity”, in Science, volume 276, number 5320, DOI: , 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.
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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kolamen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-. Doublet of columen.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkul.men/, [ˈkʊɫ.mɛn]
Noun
culmen n (genitive culminis); third declension
Inflection
Third declension neuter.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | culmen | culmina |
Genitive | culminis | culminum |
Dative | culminī | culminibus |
Accusative | culmen | culmina |
Ablative | culmine | culminibus |
Vocative | culmen | culmina |
Descendants
References
- 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, 1883–1887)
- culmen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the summits of the Alps: culmina Alpium
- the summits of the Alps: culmina Alpium
- Collins Latin Dictionary, →ISBN
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