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cacuminal

English

Etymology

From cac?min- (the stem of the Latin cac?men (extremity, point, peak) + -al

Adjective

cacuminal (comparative more cacuminal, superlative most cacuminal)

  1. Pertaining to a point, top, or crown.
  2. (linguistics, phonology) Pronounced using a retroflexed tongue.
    • 1942, George Leonard Trager, Studies in Linguistics, Volumes 1-7, page 52,
      /L/ and /n/, slightly more cacuminal than the alveolar series, are very rare, and occur only in word-final position.
    • 1992, Anatoly Liberman, Vowel lengthening before resonant + another consonant and svarabhakti in Germanic, Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr, Robert L. Kyes (editors), On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods, Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 68, page 190,
      It is a trill, because the choice can be only between a cacuminal trill or a cacuminal lateral, but cacuminal l already exists in the system [] .

Translations

Noun

cacuminal (plural cacuminals)

  1. (linguistics, phonology) A sound pronounced using a retroflexed tongue.

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cacuminous

English

Etymology

cac?min- (the stem of the Latin cac?men (tree-top)) + -ous

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k?kyo?o?m?n?s, IPA(key): /k??kju?m?n?s/

Adjective

cacuminous (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Having a pyramidal top.
    Cleopatra’s Needles are three cacuminous monoliths first erected in Ancient Egypt over a thousand years before the birth of Christ.
    • 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)
      [A]s the snow advanced vpon y? poynts vertical of cacuminous mountains dissolveth and discoagulateth it self into humorous liquidity[.]
    • 1834: James Atkinson, Medical Bibliography, s.v. “Acerbi Joseph”, page 165
      Equally so as it ha been in his own, over the estuous rivers of Lapland, or its frozen and cacuminous mountains;
    • ante 1879: Mortimer Collins, Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand, volume 1, page 248
      Luminous books (not voluminous) To read under beech-trees cacuminous.

Related terms

  • cacuminal
  • cacuminate
  • cacumination

Translations

References

  • cacuminous, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

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