accumulate

English

Etymology

  • First attested in the 1520's.
  • Borrowed from Latin accumulātus, perfect passive participle of accumulō (“amass, pile up”), formed from ad (“to, towards, at”) + cumulō (“heap”), from cumulus (“a heap”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ə.ˈkjum.jə.ˌleɪt/
  • Audio (US)(file)

Verb

accumulate (third-person singular simple present accumulates, present participle accumulating, simple past and past participle accumulated)

  1. (transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literal or figurative)
    He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
    Synonym: amass
  2. (intransitive) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
    • Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. - Oliver Goldsmith

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Adjective

accumulate (not comparable)

  1. (poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.

Further reading

  • accumulate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • accumulate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Italian

Verb

accumulate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of accumulare
  2. second-person plural imperative of accumulare
  3. feminine plural of accumulato

Latin

Etymology

From accumulō (“amass, pile up”)

Adverb

accumulātē (comparative accumulātius, superlative accumulātissimē)

  1. abundantly, copiously

Synonyms

References

  • accumulate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • accumulate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • accumulate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • accumulate in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
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