Etymograph

English

nonaccumulation

Nonaccumulation 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. Englishtodaynonaccumulation

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. Englishtodaynonaccumulation

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 Failure to accumulate.

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

Etymograph / Latin accumulātiō / nonaccumulation