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accumulate
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)
- (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
- (intransitive) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
- Synonyms: aggregate, amound, collect, gather; see also Thesaurus:accumulate
- (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)
- (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
- second-person plural present indicative of accumulare
- second-person plural imperative of accumulare
- feminine plural of accumulato
Latin
Etymology
From accumul? (“amass, pile up”)
Adverb
accumul?t? (comparative accumul?tius, superlative accumul?tissim?)
- 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)
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earn
English
Etymology 1
From Old English earnian, from Middle English ernen, from Proto-West Germanic *a?an?n, from Proto-Germanic *azan?n?.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??n/
- (US) enPR: ûrn, IPA(key): /?n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
- Homophones: ern, erne, urn
Verb
earn (third-person singular simple present earns, present participle earning, simple past and past participle earned or (chiefly UK) earnt)
- (transitive) To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
- (transitive) To receive payment for work.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (intransitive) To receive payment for work.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.
- (transitive) To achieve by being worthy of.
Synonyms
- (gain through applied effort or work): deserve, merit, garner, win
- ((transitive) receive payment for work):
- ((intransitive) receive payment for work):
- (cause someone to receive payment or reward): yield, make, generate, render
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Probably either:
- from Middle English erne, ernen (“to coagulate, congeal”) (chiefly South Midlands) [and other forms], a metathetic variant of rennen (“to run; to coagulate, congeal”), from Old English rinnen (“to run”) (with the variants iernan, irnan) and Old Norse rinna (“to move quickly, run; of liquid: to flow, run; to melt”), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”); or
- a back-formation from earning (“(Britain regional, archaic) rennet”).
Verb
earn (third-person singular simple present earns, present participle earning, simple past and past participle earned) (Britain, dialectal)
- (transitive, archaic) To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.
- Synonyms: run, (Northern England, Scotland) yearn
- (intransitive, obsolete) Of milk: to curdle, espcially in the cheesemaking process.
Etymology 3
A variant of yearn.
Verb
earn (third-person singular simple present earns, present participle earning, simple past and past participle earned)
- (transitive, obsolete) To strongly long or yearn (for something or to do something).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve.
Etymology 4
Noun
earn (plural earns)
- Alternative form of erne
References
Anagrams
- Arne, Near, Nera, eRNA, erna, nare, near, rean
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *arô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ér? (“eagle, large bird”). Cognate with Old Frisian *ern, Old Saxon *arn, Old Dutch *arn, Old High German arn, Old Norse ?rn, Gothic ???????????? (ara); and, outside the Germanic languages, with Ancient Greek ????? (órnis, “bird”), Old Armenian ???? (oror, “gull”), Old Irish irar, Lithuanian er?lis, Old Church Slavonic ????? (or?l?).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /æ??rn/, [æ??r?n]
Noun
earn m
- eagle
Declension
Descendants
- English: erne
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian *ern, from Proto-Germanic *arô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ér?.
Noun
earn c (plural earnen, diminutive earntsje)
- eagle
- (figuratively) miser
Further reading
- “earn”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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