Etymology

culmen

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Today it means: Top; summit. Full definition →

Latin culmen
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromculmen“apex, acme”
  2. English todayculmen

Borrowed from Latin culmen (“apex, acme”).

Words from the same roots

Latinculmen all →

culminateculminicorn

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