Cacumen, pen. prod. huius cacuminis, pen. cor, neu. gen. Plin. The toppe of a thing.Cacumen oui. Plin. The sharpe ende of an egge.Cacumen pilorÛ capitis. Hirt. Acutum cacumen. Ouid.Aerium montis cacumen. Catull. Altum cacumen.Virg. Crescens cacumen. Ouid.Fracta cacumina fagi. Virgil. Frondens cacumen.Ouid. Montana cacumina. Ouid.Nimbola cacumina montis aperire.Virg.Nudata cacumina syluarum, vel arborum.Ouid.Procera nemoris cacumina. Sil. Sublime cacumen.Ouid. Summum cacumen. Seneca. Vmbrosa cacumina.Virg.Motare cacumina.Virg.To wagge the toppes.Surgere gernino cacumine. Lucan. To haue two high tops.Tangere summum cacumen. Lucret. Tectum cacumen nubibus. Lucan. Tremulum cacumen. Silius. Venire ad summum cacumÊ. Lucr. To absolute persituesse.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
căcūmen, ĭnis, n. [etym. dub.], the extreme end, extremity, or point of a thing; the peak, top, utmost point.I.Lit. (whether horizontal or perpendicular; while culmen is an extremity projecting in height; v. Doed. Syn.; in the poets freq.; in prose rare before the Aug. per.; not in Cic.): ut altis Arboribus vicina cacumina summa terantur Inter se,
the extreme top
, Lucr. 1, 898. —So of tree-tops: umbrosa cacumina, Verg. E. 2, 3: fracta, id. ib. 9, 9; 6, 28; id. G. 2, 29; 2, 307; Ov. M. 1, 346; 1, 552; 1, 567; 8, 257; 8, 716; 8, 756; 9, 389; 10, 140; 10, 193; 13, 833; 15, 396; Quint. 8, 3, 10; 1, 2, 26: arborum cacumina, Plin. 10, 53, 74, 147: ficorum, pirorum, malorum, Col. 3, 21, 11: olivae, id. 5, 11, 14 and 15; 11, 3, 37; Pall. Jan. 15, 15; id. Febr. 25, 28; id. Mart. 10, 23; 10, 35; id. Apr. 4, 1; Veg. 4, 4, 9 al.: harundinis, Plin. 16, 36, 64, 158.—Of grass, the points of the blades, Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 12: praeacutis (ramorum) cacuminibus, Caes. B. G. 7, 73; Lucr. 6, 459.— Of the summits, peaks of mountains, Liv. 7, 34, 4; Lucr. 6, 464; Cat. 64, 240; Verg. A. 3, 274; Hor. Epod. 16, 28; Ov. M. 1, 310; 1, 317; 1, 666; 6, 311; 8, 797; 7, 804; 9, 93; Luc. 7, 75, Plin. 3, 16, 20, 117; 6, 7, 7, 20 al.—Of other things: pilorum, Auct. B. Afr. 47: atomi, Lucr. 1, 600: cujusque rei, id. 1, 750: ovi, Plin. 10, 52, 74, 145; 10. 54, 75, 151: metae, id. 36, 5, 4, 31: pyramidis, id. 36, 12, 17, 79: membrorum, id. 11, 37. 88, 219: ignis, Luc. 1, 551: incurvum, of the elephant's back, Sil. 9, 584.—II.Trop.A.The end, limit: donec alescundi summum tetigere cacumen, until they have completely attained the limit of their growth, Lucr. 2, 1130: ad summum donec venere cacumen,
to the height of perfection
, id. 5, 1456: famae, Laber. ap. Macr. S. 2, 7.—B. As a gram. t. t., the mark of accent placed over a letter, Mart. Cap. 3, 273.