different between summit vs fastigium

English

Etymology 1

From Late Middle English somete, from early Middle French somete, from Old French sommette, somet (compare modern French sommet), a diminutive of som (“highest part, top of a hill”), from Latin summum.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?m??t, IPA^(key): /?s?m?t/
• Homophone: summat (in some dialects)
• Rhymes: -?m?t

Noun

summit (plural summits)

1. (countable) A peak; the topmost point or surface, as of a mountain.

   In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mount Shasta.

2. (countable) A gathering or assembly of leaders.

   They met for an international summit on environmental issues.

Usage notes

Colloquially summit is used for only the highest point of a mountain, while in mountaineering any point that is higher than surrounding points is a summit, such as the South Summit of Mount Everest. These are distinguished by topographic prominence as subsummits (low prominence) or independent summits (high prominence).

Synonyms

• (peak, top of mountain): acme, apex, peak, zenith

Derived terms

• subsummit
• Summit County
• summiteer

Translations

Verb

summit (third-person singular simple present summits, present participle summiting or summitting, simple past and past participle summited or summitted)

1. (transitive, hiking, climbing, colloquial) To reach the summit of a mountain.
   • 2012, Kenza Moller, "Eyes on the North," Canadian Geographic, vol. 132, no. 4 (July/Aug.) p. 10:

     Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English *summit, *sumwit, *sumwiht, variant of sum wiht, som wiht (“some thing”, literally “some wight”). More at some, wight.

Alternative forms

• sommit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?mit/

Pronoun

summit

1. (Northern England, East Midlands) Something

Anagrams

• mutism

Italian

Noun

summit m (invariable)

1. summit (gathering of leaders)

   Synonyms: vertice, conferenza

Swedish

Verb

summit

1. supine of simma. (strong inflection)

Anagrams

• mutism

Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from English summit.

Noun

summit

1. summit

References

• ?nvestitsiä Summit?

English

Etymology

From Latin fastigium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fæs?t?d?.i.?m/

Noun

fastigium (plural fastigia)

1. An apex or summit; culmination.
2. (architecture) A pediment or gable end.
3. (pathology) The most intense phase of a disease, especially a fever.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *farstjagjom, from Proto-Indo-European *b?érstis, from *b?ers- (“tip”). Compare Middle Irish brostaim (“I goad, spur”), English bristle, Polish barszcz (“hogweed”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fas?ti?.?i.um/, [fäs??t?i??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fas?ti.d??i.um/, [f?s?t?i?d??ium]

Noun

fast?gium n (genitive fast?gi? or fast?g?); second declension

1. peak, summit, top
2. slope, declivity, descent
3. gable
4. sharp point
5. highlight (of a story or poem)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• fast?g?

Descendants

• French: faîte (partially)
• Spanish: hastial
• ? Portuguese: fastígio
• ? Spanish: fastigio

References

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