different between accumulate vs amens

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??kju?mj??le?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?.?kjum.j?.?le?t/
• Hyphenation: ac?cu?mu?late

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 literally or figuratively)

   Synonyms: amass, heap, hoard, store; see also Thesaurus:pile up

2. (intransitive) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.

   Synonyms: aggregate, amound, collect, gather; see also Thesaurus:accumulate
3. (education, dated) To take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval than usual.

Translations

Adjective

accumulate (not comparable)

1. (poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.

Related terms

• accumulation
• accumulator
• cumulus

Further reading

• accumulate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• accumulate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 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 accumul? (“amass, pile up”)

Adverb

accumul?t? (comparative accumul?tius, superlative accumul?tissim?)

1. abundantly, copiously

Synonyms

• abundanter

Related terms

• accumulator
• accumul?

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?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

English

Noun

amens

1. plural of amen

Verb

amens

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amen

Anagrams

• Means, Mensa, Seman, manes, manse, means, mensa, mesna, names, namés, neams, ñames

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??m?ns/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a?m?ns/
• Rhymes: -?ns

Adjective

amens

1. plural of amè

French

Noun

amens m

1. plural of amen

Latin

Etymology

Derived from ?- (“out of, away”) +? m?ns (“mind”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a?.mens/, [?ä?m??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.mens/, [???m?ns]

Adjective

?m?ns (genitive ?mentis, comparative ?mentior, superlative ?mentissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. frenzied, mad
2. frantic, distracted
3. (Medieval Latin) insane, demented

See also

• d?m?ns

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Descendants

• Italian: amente
• Spanish: amente

Citations

• Publius Ovidius Naso, Tristia. In: Ovid with an English translation, Tristia • Ex Ponto, by Arthur Leslie Wheeler, 1939, p. 110f.:

  quin etiam sic me dicunt aliena locutum,
  ut foret amenti nomen in ore tuum.

  Nay more, they say that when I talked strange things, 'twas so that your name was on my delirious lips.

References

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