Latin

Noun

cacūmen n ‎(genitive cacūminis); third declension

1. peak, extremity, top, summit
2. end, limit
3. (grammar) accent mark placed over a letter

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Derived terms

• cacūminō

Descendants

• English: cacuminous, cacuminal
• Italian: cacume

References

• cacumen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cacumen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CACUMEN in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cacumen”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

1. ↑ “cacume” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2