cacuminale

Italian

Etymology

From cacumin-, fossilized stem for cacume (“peak”, “top”) +‎ -ale (“-al”, adjectival derivational suffix) (cfr. Latin cacūmen, cacūminis).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ka.ku.miˈna.le/
  • Rhymes: -ale
  • Hyphenation: ca‧cu‧mi‧nà‧le

Adjective

cacuminale (plural cacuminali)

  1. summital, culminal, cacuminal
    Synonyms: culminale, sommitale
  2. (linguistics, phonetics) retroflex
    Synonym: retroflesso
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