summit

From Late Middle English somete, from early Middle French somete, from Old French sommette, somet (compare modern French sommet), a diminutive of som (“highest part, top of a hill”), from Latin summum. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. (what is the origin of sense 2?).

• enPR: sŭmʹĭt, IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmɪt/

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• Homophone: summat (in some dialects)
• Rhymes: -ʌmɪt

summit (plural summits)

1. (countable) A peak; the topmost point or surface, as of a mountain.

   In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mount Shasta.

2. (countable) A gathering or assembly of leaders.

   They met for an international summit on environmental issues.

Colloquially summit is used for only the highest point of a mountain, while in mountaineering any point that is higher than surrounding points is a summit, such as the South Summit of Mount Everest. These are distinguished by topographic prominence as subsummits (low prominence) or independent summits (high prominence).

• (peak, top of mountain): acme, apex, peak, zenith

summit (third-person singular simple present summits, present participle summiting or summitting, simple past and past participle summited or summitted)

1. (transitive, intransitive, hiking, climbing, colloquial) To reach the summit of a mountain.
   • 2012, Kenza Moller, "Eyes on the North," Canadian Geographic, vol. 132, no. 4 (July/Aug.) p. 10:

     Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited.

From Middle English *summit, *sumwit, *sumwiht, variant of sum wiht, som wiht (“some thing”, literally “some wight”). More at some, wight.

• sommit

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʊmit/

summit

1. (Northern England, East Midlands) Something

   I need to get summit to eat.

• mutism

Unadapted borrowing from English summit.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsum.mit/, /ˈsam.mit/[1]
• Rhymes: -ummit, -ammit
• Hyphenation: sùm‧mit

summit m (invariable)

1. summit (gathering of leaders)

   Synonyms: vertice, conferenza

Unadapted borrowing from English summit.

summit n (plural summituri)

1. summit

summit

1. supine of simma. (strong inflection)

• mutism

Borrowed from English summit.

summit

1. summit

   İnvestitsiä Summitı

   Investment summit

• İnvestitsiä Summitı