English
adcumulate
Adcumulate comes from Latin cumulātus ‘heaped’, from cumulō ‘to heap, pile up, amass, accumulate’, and ultimately from cumulus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcumulus‘heap, pile’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcumulō‘to heap, pile up, amass, accumulate’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcumulātus‘heaped’
- English1500–presentcumulate
- Englishtodayadcumulate
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcumulus‘heap, pile’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcumulō‘to heap, pile up, amass, accumulate’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcumulātus‘heaped’
- English1500–presentcumulate
- Englishtodayadcumulate
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- ‘to swell’
church, jail, cave, cage, kirk, cavity, hound, excavation, cyst, gaol, excavate, cajole, cavil, caul, 40 more
through Latin cumulus ‘heap, pile’
Today it means
noun A cumulate rock in which the groundmass is of the same composition as the accumulated crystals.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin cumulus / adcumulate