apex

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the highest point or culmination of something

   She reached the apex of her career at forty.

Simplified etymology

Apex was adopted in the late 16th century from Latin apex, meaning “peak” or “tip.”

From Latin apex ('summit, peak, tip'), originally the point of a priest's cap, of uncertain further origin.

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