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A Latin equivalent of the English noun 'top' is turbo. Its literal meaning is 'a movement in a circle, a whirling round, an eddy'. But one of its looser translations is 'a child's top'. Other Latin equivalents are cacumen and culmen, both of which refer to 'the top, the summit'.

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