culminant

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English

Etymology

From French culminant.

Adjective

culminant (comparative more culminant, superlative most culminant)

  1. being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude
  2. (by extension) predominant

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “culminant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Adjective

culminant m or f (masculine and feminine plural culminants)

  1. culminating

Etymology 2

Verb

culminant

  1. gerund of culminar

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

culminant (feminine culminante, masculine plural culminants, feminine plural culminantes)

  1. highest (typically of mountains)

Participle

culminant

  1. present participle of culminer

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French culminant.

Adjective

culminant m or n (feminine singular culminantă, masculine plural culminanți, feminine and neuter plural culminante)

  1. culminating

Declension

singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite culminant culminantă culminanți culminante
definite culminantul culminanta culminanții culminantele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite culminant culminante culminanți culminante
definite culminantului culminantei culminanților culminantelor
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