Meanings
- not comparablerareHaving a pyramidal top.
Cleopatra’s Needles are three cacuminous monoliths first erected in Ancient Egypt over a thousand years before the birth of Christ.
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[A]s the snow advanced vpon yᵉ poynts vertical of cacuminous mountains dissolveth and discoagulateth it self into humorous liquidity[.]
1597: John Hoskyns’ “A Tuftafffeta Speech”, printed in Sir Benjamin Rudyerd’s 1660 Le Prince d’Amour, and reprinted on page 100 of Louise Brown Osborn’s 1937 The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns, 1566–1638 (published by the Yale University Press)Equally so as it ha been in his own, over the estuous rivers of Lapland, or its frozen and cacuminous mountains;
1834: James Atkinson, Medical Bibliography, s.v. “Acerbi Joseph”, page 165Hours Of youth…and love ‛neath trees cacuminous.
1871, Mortimer Collins, Inn Street Meetings, page 10Luminous books (not voluminous) To read under beech-trees cacuminous.
ante 1879: Mortimer Collins, Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand, volume 1, page 248
Origin
- Latincacūmen, cacūminis“extremity, point, peak”
- Englishcacuminous
From oblique stem of Latin cacūmen, cacūminis (“extremity, point, peak”) + -ous.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Spanish con cima piramidal, piramidal
- con cima piramidalhaving a pyramidal top
- piramidalhaving a pyramidal top
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cacuminous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cacuminous
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