# accumulate
## English
### Etymology

First attested c. 1487; from Middle English accumylaten, borrowed from Latin accumulātus, perfect passive participle of accumulō (“to amass, pile up”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), formed from ad (“to, towards, at”) + cumulō (“to heap”), from cumulus (“a heap”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French accumuler.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/
* (General American, Canada) IPA: /əˈkju.mjəˌleɪt/
** Audio (US):(file)
* 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
    He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
* (intransitive) To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number.
    Synonyms: aggregate, amound, collect, gather; see also Thesaurus:accumulate
    With her company going bankrupt, her divorce, and a gambling habit, debts started to accumulate so she had to sell her house.
** 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, lines 17–18:Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, / Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
* (education, dated) To take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval than usual.

#### Derived terms

* accumulable
* accumulative
* bioaccumulate
* hyperaccumulate
* hyperaccumulating
* misaccumulated
* nonaccumulating
* overaccumulate
* preaccumulated
* reaccumulate
* reaccumulated
* unaccumulate
* unaccumulated

#### Translations
### Adjective

accumulate (not comparable)
* (poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.

### Related terms

* accumulation
* accumulator
* cumulus

### References

* ↑ “accumulate, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Further reading

* “accumulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “accumulate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

accumulate
* inflection of accumulare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

accumulate f pl
* feminine plural of accumulato

## Latin
### Etymology

From accumulō (“amass, pile up”).

### Adverb

accumulātē (comparative accumulātius, superlative accumulātissimē)
* abundantly, copiously

#### Synonyms

* abundanter

#### Related terms

* accumulator
* accumulō

### 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)