apex – English noun declension

English noun forms of apex

Noun: apex
Singularapex
Pluralapices; apexes

Sample Sentences

  • the apex of the building
  • B.P. 118/68. Grade I diastolic murmur best heard over apex. Patient well and had no complaints referable to heart. Origin of the diastolic murmur is open to conjecture. [1951 March, J. H. Lehmann, A. D. Johnson, W. C. Bridges, J. Michel, D. M. Green, “Cardiac Catheterization—A Diagnostic Aid in Congenital Heart Disease”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 3, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 175:]
  • Drone cameras show that his car reached the apex first.
  • Licking her apex, he slid his hand up between her legs and slid his fingers into her heat. [2014 April 6, Kathi S. Barton, Brock, World Castle Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:]
  • He opened them, and smiled slightly, as he moved his hand to her hip, and caressed his way to her apex, lightly stroking her through her dress. [2016 February 9, Rhonda Leibel, Princess' Knight, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:]
  • While his fingers retreated, the ache she felt in her apex had only grown, wanting more. [2021 December 9, Catherine Edward, Husband Undercover: A Phantom Agent Novel, Catherine Edward, →ISBN:]
  • the apex of civilization
  • It would be an intense disgust. The absolute apex of teen angst. [2002, Jeffrey Rowland, “Day 2 (The Slagathors)”, in Wigu Adventures, page 58:]
  • The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom. Organic civilizations rise, evolve, advance. And at the apex of their glory, they are extinguished. [2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Virmire:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep-der.
3. Proto-Italic *apeks
4. Latin apexbor.
5. English apex
6. Borrowed from Latin apex (“point, tip, summit”). See: Latin Nouns 'apex'.