Jan. 4th, 2012

cumulate

Jan. 4th, 2012 07:17 am
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cumulate - adj., (KYOO-myuh-lit) heaped up in a pile, agglomerated, amassed. v., (KYOO-myuh-layt) to heap up, amass, accumulate; to combine (two or more sequences) into one.


As you might expect, accumulate is just this word with ad-, together tacked on front as a sort of intensifier. Borrowed around 1530 from Latin cumulātus, past participle of cumulāre, to heap up, pile up, accumulate, from cumulus, a heap, pile, mass (yes, as in the type of cloud that looks like a heap).

---L.

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