different between apex vs caudate

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

Etymology

From the Medieval Latin caud?tus, from the Classical Latin cauda (“tail”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?k??de?t/
• Homophones: chordate, cordate (non-rhotic accents)

Adjective

caudate (not comparable)

1. (botany) Tapering into a long, tail-like extension at the apex.
2. (zoology) Having a tail.
3. (zoology) Of or pertaining to the Caudata order of amphibians.
4. (anatomy) Indicates an anatomical structure with a tail-like extension, such as the Caudate nucleus.

Related terms

• e caudata
• subcaudate

Translations

Noun

caudate (plural caudates)

1. (zoology) Any member of the Caudata order of amphibians.
   • 1992, Martin E. Feder, Warren W. Burggren, Environmental Physiology of the Amphibians (page 291)

     Some caudates show caudal autotomy, in that part or all of the tail can be shed and subsequently regenerated.

Translations

Anagrams

• acuated

Italian

Adjective

caudate

1. feminine plural of caudato

Anagrams

• educata

Latin

Adjective

caud?te

1. vocative masculine singular of caud?tus