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culmination

Today it means: The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit. Full definition →

French culmination ← Medieval Latin culminatus

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Medieval Latin · derived fromculminatus
French · borrowed fromculmination
English todayculmination

Borrowed from French culmination, from culminer, or from Medieval Latin culminatus + -tion. Morphologically culminate + -ion.

Words from the same roots

Medieval Latinculminatus all →

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.