different between accrue vs cumulate

English

Etymology

• First attested in mid 15th century.
• From Middle English acrewen, borrowed from Old French acreüe, past participle of accreistre (“to increase”), from Latin accr?sco (“increase”), from ad (“in addition”) + cr?sc? (“to grow”).
• Compare accretion, accresce, accrete, crew, crescent.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k?u?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?.?k?u/

• Rhymes: -u?

Verb

accrue (third-person singular simple present accrues, present participle accruing, simple past and past participle accrued)

1. (intransitive) To increase, to rise
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

     And though pow’r fail’d, her Courage did accrue

2. (intransitive) to reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
   • 1879, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Dictionary of Terms and Phrases used in American or English Jurisprudence: ACCRUE

     Interest accrues to principal.

   • 1772, Junius, The Letters of Junius, Preface

     The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press

3. (intransitive, accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.

4. (transitive) to accumulate

5. (intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.

Synonyms

• (increase): rise; see also Thesaurus:increase
• (accumulate): add up; see also Thesaurus:accumulate

Antonyms

• (accounting): amortize, defer, prepay

Translations

Noun

accrue (plural accrues)

1. (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing

Translations

Further reading

• accrue at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “accrue”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.k?y/

Noun

accrue f (plural accrues)

1. dry land created by draining

Verb

accrue

1. feminine singular of the past participle of accroître

English

Etymology

Latin cumulatus, past participle of cumulo (“to pile up”).

Verb

cumulate (third-person singular simple present cumulates, present participle cumulating, simple past and past participle cumulated)

1. (transitive) To accumulate; to amass.
2. (intransitive) To be accumulated.

Synonyms

• (accumulate): amass, heap up; see also Thesaurus:pile up
• (be accumulated):

Translations

Adjective

cumulate (comparative more cumulate, superlative most cumulate)

1. accumulated, agglomerated, amassed

Translations

Noun

cumulate (plural cumulates)

1. (geology) An igneous rock formed by the accumulation of crystals from a magma either by settling or floating.

Italian

Verb

cumulate

1. second-person plural present indicative of cumulare
2. second-person plural imperative of cumulare
3. feminine plural of cumulato

Latin

Verb

cumul?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cumul?

References

• cumulate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cumulate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cumulate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette