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cacuminate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
cacumi-nate
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make sharp or pointed.

Obsolete

Etymology

From oblique stem of Latin cacūmen, cacūminis (“extremity, point, peak”) + -al, ultimately from Latin cacūminātus, past participle of cacūminō, from cacūmen.

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Inflected Forms

cacuminates (present, singular) cacuminating (participle, present) cacuminated (participle, past) cacuminated (past)

Questions

What does cacuminate mean?
To make sharp or pointed.
Where does cacuminate come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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