acme

See also: ACME, Acme, and acmé

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀκμή ‎(akmḗ, “point, top”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæk.mi/

Noun

acme ‎(plural acmes)

1. The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination. [c. 1610]
   • (Can we date this quote?), Alexander Pope

     The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry.

   • (Can we date this quote?), I. Taylor

     The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy.

2. (medicine) The crisis or height of a disease.
3. Mature age; full bloom of life.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:apex

Translations

the highest point

• Bulgarian: връхна точка ‎(vrǎhna točka)
• Dutch: hoogtepunt (nl) n
• French: acmé (fr) f
• Greek: απόγειο (el) n ‎(apógeio)

• Icelandic: hápunktur (is) m
• Italian: acme (it) f, climax (it) m, apice (it) m, culmine (it) m
• Spanish: acmé (es) m, f, apogeo (es) m, cúspide (es) f
• Swedish: höjdpunkt (sv), kulmen (sv)

the crisis or height of a disease

• Spanish: acmé (es) m, f

full bloom

• Bulgarian: разцвет (bg) ‎(razcvet)
• French: force de l'âge (fr) f

• Italian: colmo (it) m, apogeo (it) m
• Swedish: kulm

External links

• acme at OneLook Dictionary Search
• acme in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• came, ECMA, eMac, EMAC, mace, Mace

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Italian

Noun

acme f ‎(invariable)

1. acme

Synonyms

• apice
• culmine
• sommità