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klimaks

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch climax, from Latin clīmax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax), from κλίνω (klínō, I lean, slant).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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klimaks (uncountable)

  1. climax:
    1. The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
    2. A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series.

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax).

Noun

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klimaks n (definite singular klimakset, indefinite plural klimaks or klimakser, definite plural klimaksa or klimaksene)

  1. a climax
    Antonym: antiklimaks

Usage notes

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  • Prior to a 2021 spelling revision, this noun was also considered masculine.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax).

Noun

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klimaks n (definite singular klimakset, indefinite plural klimaks, definite plural klimaksa)

  1. a climax
    Antonym: antiklimaks

Usage notes

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  • Prior to a 2021 spelling revision, this noun was also considered masculine.

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Polish

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkli.maks/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -imaks
  • Syllabification: kli‧maks

Noun

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klimaks m inan

  1. (ecology) climax (the culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment)
  2. (narratology) climax (the culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point)
  3. (colloquial, medicine) climacterium
    Synonyms: klimakterium, menopauza, przekwitanie
  4. (colloquial) climax, orgasm
    Synonyms: orgazm, szczytowanie
  5. (rhetoric, literary) climax, incrementum (a rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order)
    Synonym: gradacja
  6. (grammar) gradation, comparison (a feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe)
    Synonyms: gradacja, stopniowanie

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Derived terms

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adjective
noun

Further reading

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  • klimaks in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • klimaks in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /klǐmaks/
  • Hyphenation: kli‧maks

Noun

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klìmaks m (Cyrillic spelling клѝмакс)

  1. climax

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