different between terms vs culmen

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??mz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t?mz/

Noun

terms

1. plural of term

Verb

terms

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of term

Anagrams

• ERTMS

Swedish

Noun

terms

1. indefinite genitive singular of term

English

Etymology

From Latin culmen (“apex, acmé”).

Noun

culmen (plural culmens or culmina)

1. Top; summit.

   Synonyms: top, summit, acme

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2. (zoology) The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.

Further reading

• culmen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kolamen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-. Doublet of columen.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kul.men/, [?k???m?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kul.men/, [?kulm?n]

Noun

culmen n (genitive culminis); third declension

1. stalk
2. top, roof, summit, peak
3. (figuratively) height, acme

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Descendants

References

• culmen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• culmen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• culmen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• culmen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
• Collins Latin Dictionary, ?ISBN

Spanish

Noun

culmen m (plural cúlmenes)

1. height, epitome, high point