Summity

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The quality or state of being the highest point, or of belonging to the very top of something
2. The condition of being a peak or topmost level, whether of a mountain or an achievement
3. A rare term for the character of a summit, meaning the highest or uppermost point of something

Etymology: "Summity" is a rare English noun meaning the highest point or the top. It is built from "summ-", a form of "summit" that appears only as a stem here, plus the suffix "-ity", which turns adjectives into nouns of state or quality. Beneath that, the stem goes back to Latin "summus", meaning "highest," the superlative of "superus" ("upper"). The Latin base was extended to "summitas" and passed into English through the French "sommité" before "summit" itself took shape. So the word is less a single borrowing than a small chain of Latin-derived forms, with the English suffix attached at the end.