Etymograph

English

acervate

Acervate comes from Latin acervātus ‘heaped’, from acervō ‘heap or pile up’, and ultimately from acervus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEacervus‘heap’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEacervō‘heap or pile up’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEacervātus‘heaped’perfect passive participle of acervō
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1989acervate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEacervus‘heap’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEacervō‘heap or pile up’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEacervātus‘heaped’perfect passive participle of acervō
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1989acervate

Earliest quotation: 1989, Valayamghat Raghavan, Developmental Biology of Fern Gametophytes: “Later, the megaspore becomes fully engorged with cytoplasm and…”

Every English word from Latin acervus

Today it means

adj Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.

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Etymograph / Latin acervus / acervate

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