klimaks

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈklimaks]
• Hyphenation: kli‧maks
• Rhymes: -maks, -aks, -ks, -s

klimaks (plural klimaks-klimaks)

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

• “klimaks” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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

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

1. a climax

   Antonym: antiklimaks

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

• “klimaks” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

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

1. a climax

   Antonym: antiklimaks

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

• “klimaks” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkli.maks/

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• Rhymes: -imaks
• Syllabification: kli‧maks

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

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

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

klìmaks m inan (Cyrillic spelling клѝмакс)

1. climax