köken: From early modern (15th century) güpfel, diminutive of Middle High German gupf, gupfe (“highest point”), with further origin uncertain; perhaps related to German Kuppe. Cognate with Hunsrik Gippel, Vilamovian gejwuł. Compare Wipfel.
köken: From bi- (“two”) + -illion; i.e., a million million. Coined by Jehan Adam in 1475 as by-million. Rendered as byllion by Nicolas Chuquet in 1484, in his article “Triparty en la science des nombres”.
peak, summit, mountaintop (top of a mountain or hill) · cyme
çekim: çoğul cimas
eş: cumbre, vocal
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish cima, from Latin cȳma (“young sprout, hollow sphere”) (compare French cime (“peak, summit, top of a tree”), Italian cima (“top, peak, summit”), Portuguese cima (“top”), Romanian ciumă (“plague, pestilence”)), from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “something swollen; wave, billow”), from κύω (kúō, “to be pregnant, to conceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell”).
köken: Exact calque of French billion, with the wrong bi- (“bi-, twice”) corresponding to δίς (dís, “twice, two”) and million to εκατομμύριο (ekatommýrio, “hundred myriad, million”). Thus literally "two million". The mathematically correct formation would be χίλια (chília, “a thousand”) + εκατομμύριο (ekatommýrio). Attested in 1871. Compare to the ancient δισχίλιος (diskhílios, “two thousand”) and…
top, peak, summit · climax, culmination, apex, vertex · one of the best in their field
çekim: çoğul huiput · tamlayan huipun
köken: Probably from hui (“spool”), like dialectal huitti, huittu "peak, top". The -pp- may be from suippo, suippu. A sound-symbolic blend is possible.
tip, point (the sharp end of a conical object) · top (the uppermost part of a tree, or of a tower tapering to a point) · peak, summit (the top of a hill, mountain or range, ending in a point)
çekim: çoğul csúcsok
köken: Uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ćuća (“point, peak”), in which case related to Erzya цёцяня (ćoćańa).
The extreme end of a thing; the point, summit, top. · The small rod (generally of olive wood) at the top of the flamen's cap, wound around with a woolen cord or "thread". · The conical leathern cap of an ancient Roman priest (the Flamen), ornamented with this rod.
çekim: çoğul apicēs · tamlayan apicis
zıt: fundus
köken: From Proto-Italic *apeks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“to join, fit”). De Vaan approches this connection with caution since a link with apiō is through some meanings feasible in addition to the observation that most ex, -icis are technical terms without Indo-European origin.