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English

Etymology

• First attested in the late 15th century.
• accumulate +? -ion, or borrowed from Latin accumulatio, accumulationis. Doublet of accumulatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.?kju?m.j?.?le?.??n/
• Hyphenation: ac?cu?mu?la?tion
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

accumulation (countable and uncountable, plural accumulations)

1. The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
2. The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.

3. A mass of something piled up or collected.
4. (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
5. (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
6. (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
7. (Britain, education, historical, uncountable) The practice of taking two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce the length of study.

Synonyms

• (accounting): retained earnings

Antonyms

• decumulation

Related terms

• accumulate
• accumulator

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin accumulatio, accumulationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ky.my.la.sj??/

Noun

accumulation f (plural accumulations)

1. accumulation (action of accumulating)
2. accumulation (result of accumulating)

Related terms

• accumuler

Further reading

• “accumulation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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)