Etymograph

English

deaccumulation

Deaccumulation comes from Latin accumulātiō ‘the act of heaping up’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaccumulātiō‘the act of heaping up’
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500acumulacyon
  3. English1500–presentaccumulation
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2008deaccumulation

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaccumulātiō‘the act of heaping up’
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500acumulacyon
  3. English1500–presentaccumulation
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2008deaccumulation

Earliest quotation: 2008, Robert Hertzberg, Making Your Money Last as Long as You Live: “Unless you’ve actually lived through it personally, you don’t…”

A compound of cumulus ‘heap, pile’ + cumulō ‘to heap, pile up, amass, accumulate’ + accumulō ‘to add to a heap, heap or pile up, accumulate,…’

Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- ‘to swell’

Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁mós

Latin cumulus ‘heap, pile’

Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- ‘to swell’

Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁mós

Latin cumulus ‘heap, pile’

Latin cumulō ‘to heap, pile up, amass, accumulate’

Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- ‘to swell’

Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁mós

Latin cumulus ‘heap, pile’

Latin cumulō ‘to heap, pile up, amass, accumulate’

Latin accumulō ‘to add to a heap, heap or pile up, accumulate, load, amass’

Today it means

noun The reversal of accumulation, as by selling the assets of a business.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin accumulātiō / deaccumulation