accumulate
verbEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁mósder.? Latin cumulus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin cumulō Latin accumulō Latin accumulātusbor. Middle English accumylaten English accumulate First attested c. 1487; from Middle English accumylaten, borrowed from Latin accumulātus, perfect passive participle of accumulō (“to amass, pile up”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), formed from ad (“to, towards, at”) + cumulō (“to heap”), from cumulus (“a heap”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French accumuler.
- borrowed from accumulātus
- inherited from accumylaten
Definitions
To heap up in a mass
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively), often gradually and without active intent.
- He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number.
- With her company going bankrupt, her divorce, and a gambling habit, debts started to accumulate so she had to sell her house.
- Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, / Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
To take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval…
To take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval than usual.
›+ 1 more definitionshow fewer
Collected
Collected; accumulated.
The neighborhood
- synonymaccrue
- synonymaccumulate
- synonymadd up
- synonymamound
- synonymgather
- synonymgarner
- synonymget up
- synonymheap up
- synonymmount up
- synonymstack up
- antonymdecline
- antonymdecumulate
- antonymlose
- neighboramass
- neighborassemble
- neighborincrease
- neighborreceive
- neighborclock up
- neighborcollect
- neighborcorrade
- neighborculch
- neighborforedeal
- neighborglean
- neighborhutch
- neighborlay by
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at accumulate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at accumulate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at accumulate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA