acclivity

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English

Etymology

First attested in 1614. From Latin acclīvitās, from acclīvis (“ascending”), from ad + clīvus (“slope”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /əˈklɪv.ə.ti/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

acclivity (plural acclivities)

(geomorphology) A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.
- 1797, Ann Radcliffe, The Italian:
  how gaily vineyards and olives alternately chequer the acclivities
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:
  she would walk […] as far as to the point where the acclivity from the valley began its first steep ascent to the outer world.
- 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage , New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
  Just below it leaned a tottering crag that would have toppled, starting an avalanche on an acclivity where no sliding mass could stop.

Translations

slope or inclination considered as "ascending"

Finnish: ylämäki (fi), nousu (fi)
Kikuyu: mwambato class 3
Portuguese: aclividade f
Swedish: sluttning (sv), stigning (sv), stigning (sv)
Tibetan: རྒྱེན་གསེག (rgyen gseg)

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