Etymograph

English

exacervation

Exacervation comes from Latin exacervō ‘to heap up exceedingly’, and goes back to acervus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEacervus‘mass, heap, pile, stack, cluster’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexacervō‘to heap up exceedingly’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1817exacervation

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEacervus‘mass, heap, pile, stack, cluster’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEexacervō‘to heap up exceedingly’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1817exacervation

Earliest quotation: 1817, William Stoker, Cases of Tumours within the Abdomen: “Recovery now progressively succeeded, as after the former eruptions…”

Every English word from Latin acervus

Today it means

noun The act of heaping up.

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Etymograph / Latin acervus / exacervation

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