Meanings (ES + gloss)
cumbre • pináculo
The highest point.
pico
A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
Kings, who remain in many respects the representatives of a vanished world, solitary pinnacles that topple over the rising waste of waters under which the past lies buried.
pináculo • ápice
An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.
The pinnacle of the effort to fix restrictive meanings to a set of terminology can be found in two papers in American Speech by Feinsilver (1979, 1980).
pináculo
An upright member, generally ending in a small spire, used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire.
In the city’s midst the gleaming marble of a thousand steps climbed to the citadel where arose four pinnacles beckoning to heaven, and midmost between the pinnacles there stood the…
Some renowned metropolis / With glistering spires and pinnacles around.
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