c 3 u 1 l 1 m 3 i 1 n 1 a 1 t 1 e 1
9 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
verb bring to a head or to the highest point
verb reach the highest or most decisive point
originFirst attested in 1647; borrowed from Medieval Latin culminātus, perfect passive participle of culminō (“to crown”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin culmen (“peak, highest point”, oblique stem culmin-) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), older form columen (“top, summit”), from Proto-Italic *kolamen, from a Proto-Indo-European base *kol-, *kelH- (“to project, rise; peak, summit, top”), whence…
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