different between accumulation vs multitude

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

From Middle English multitude, multitud, multytude (“(great) amount or number of people or things; multitudinous”), borrowed from Old French multitude (“crowd of people; diversity, wide range”), or directly from its etymon Latin multit?d? (“great amount or number of people or things”), from multus (“many; much”) + -t?d? (suffix forming abstract nouns indicating a state or condition). The English word is analysable as multi- +? -tude.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?lt?tju?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?lt??t(j)ud/, /?m?l-/
• Hyphenation: mul?ti?tude

Noun

multitude (plural multitudes)

1. A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.

   Synonym: (Northern England, Scotland) hantel, hantle
2. The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.

   Synonym: crowd

   Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them.

   • Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil

Derived terms

• multitudinous

Translations

References

Further reading

• multitude on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French multitude.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myl.ti.tyd/

Noun

multitude f (plural multitudes)

1. multitude

Further reading

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

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin multit?d? (“great amount or number of people or things”), from multus (“many; much”) + -t?d? (suffix forming abstract nouns indicating a state or condition).

Noun

multitude f (oblique plural multitudes, nominative singular multitude, nominative plural multitudes)

1. crowd of people
2. diversity; wide range

Descendants

• English: multitude
• French: multitude