different between apex vs aped

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin apex (“point, tip, summit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.p?ks/
• Rhymes: -e?p?ks

Noun

apex (plural apices or apexes)

1. The highest or the greatest part of something, especially forming a point.

   Synonyms: peak, top, summit, vertex

   1. (geometry) The highest point in a plane or solid figure, relative to a base line or plane.
   2. (chiefly anatomy) The pointed fine end of something.
      1. The lowest part of the human heart.
      2. The deepest part of a tooth's root.
      3. Synonyms: end, tip
   3. (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ opposed to the end where it is attached to its support.

      Synonym: tip

   4. (botany) The growing point of a shoot.
   5. (astronomy) The point on the celestial sphere toward which the Sun appears to move relative to nearby stars.

      Hyponym: solar apex

   6. (physics) The lowest point on a pendant drop of a liquid.
   7. (mining, US) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface.
   8. (typography):
      1. A diacritic in Classical Latin that resembles and gave rise to the acute.
      2. A diacritic in Middle Vietnamese that indicates /??m/.
      3. A sharp upward point formed by two strokes that meet at an acute angle, as in "W", uppercase "A", and closed-top "4", or by a tapered stroke, as in lowercase "t".

         Coordinate term: vertex

2. (figuratively) The moment of greatest success, expansion, etc.

   Synonyms: acme, culmination, height, peak, pinnacle

3. (attributive, ecology) The top of the food chain.
4. A conical priest cap.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:apex

Derived terms

Related terms

• apical

Translations

References

• “apex”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “apex”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• apex in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• apex at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h?ep- (“to join, fit”). Cognate with Latin ap? (“to fasten, join, tie to”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.peks/, [?äp?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.peks/, [???p?ks]

Noun

apex m (genitive apicis); third declension

1. The extreme end of a thing; the point, summit, top.

   Synonyms: cac?men, summa, fast?gium, culmen, vertex

2. (literally) The small rod at the top of the flamen's cap, wound around with wool.
3. (transferred sense):
   1. The conical cap of a priest (the flamen), ornamented with this rod.
   2. Any hat or helmet; a crown.
   3. (literally) A projecting point or summit.
      1. (figuratively) The highest ornament or honor; the crown of a thing.
   4. (grammar) The macron (long mark over a vowel).
      1. The forms or outlines of the letters.
   5. A letter or any other writing.
   6. (Ecclesiastical Latin, figuratively) (of the point or apex of a Hebrew letter) The least particle, tittle.

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• apex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• apex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• apex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• apex in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• apex in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?pt/

Verb

aped

1. simple past tense and past participle of ape

Anagrams

• E.D. Pa., PDEA, PEAD, peda