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cacuminal

/kəˈkjuːmənəl/

cacuminal adjective: pertaining to a point, top, or crown.

Adjective

cacuminal (comparative more cacuminal, superlative most cacuminal)

  1. Pertaining to a point, top, or crown.
  2. (dated) Pronounced using a concave or retroflexed tongue; occasionally palatal sounds more generally.
    • /L/ and /N/, slightly more cacuminal than the alveolar series, are very rare, and occur only in word-final position.1942, George Leonard Trager, Studies in Linguistics, Volumes 1-7, page 52
    • The cacuminal s is produced by raising the tongue-tip to a point behind the alveoli, with a concavity in its upper surface;1951, William James Entwistle, The Spanish Language: Together with Portuguese, Catalan and Basque, page 218

Noun

cacuminal (plural cacuminals)

  1. (dated) A sound pronounced using a retroflexed tongue.

cacuminal meaning in Tamil and Bengali

cacuminal in Tamil

மடிநா இடையண்ணவினம்

cacuminal in Bengali

জিহ্বার ডগা দিয়ে উচ্চারিত

Forms of cacuminal

Adjective
comparativemore cacuminal
superlativemost cacuminal
Noun
pluralcacuminals

Origin of cacuminal

From oblique stem of Latin cacūmen, cacūminis (“extremity, point, peak”) + -al.

Words formed from cacuminal

Questions about cacuminal

What does cacuminal mean?
Cacuminal means pertaining to a point, top, or crown.
What is cacuminal in Tamil?
Cacuminal in Tamil is மடிநா இடையண்ணவினம். See Cacuminal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cacuminal?
Cacuminal can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce cacuminal?
Cacuminal is pronounced /kəˈkjuːmənəl/.

Words near cacuminal in the dictionary

  1. cactusses
  2. cactussy
  3. cactusy
  4. cacumen
  5. cacumina
  6. cacuminal
  7. cacuminalization
  8. cacuminals
  9. cacuminate
  10. cacuminated
  11. cacuminates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cacuminal (page history and authors); cacuminal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cacuminal (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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