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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)
- Pertaining to a point, top, or crown.
- (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 […] .
- 1942, George Leonard Trager, Studies in Linguistics, Volumes 1-7, page 52,
Translations
Noun
cacuminal (plural cacuminals)
- (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)
- (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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