Etymograph

English

orthocumulate

Orthocumulate comes from Latin cumulātus ‘heaped’, from cumulō ‘to heap, pile up, amass, accumulate’, and ultimately from cumulus.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcumulus‘heap, pile’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcumulō‘to heap, pile up, amass, accumulate’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcumulātus‘heaped’
  4. English1500–presentcumulate
  5. Englishtodayorthocumulate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcumulus‘heap, pile’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcumulō‘to heap, pile up, amass, accumulate’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcumulātus‘heaped’
  4. English1500–presentcumulate
  5. Englishtodayorthocumulate

A compound of ortho- + cumulate

Proto-Indo-European *h₃erdʰ- ‘upright, high’

Proto-Hellenic *ortʰwós

Ancient Greek ὀρθός ‘straight, upright, standing, rearing (of horses)’

English ortho-

Latin cumulus ‘heap, pile’

Latin cumulō ‘to pile up’

Latin cumulātus ‘heaped’

English cumulate

Linked words

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

church, jail, cave, cage, kirk, cavity, excavation, hound, cyst, gaol, excavate, cajole, cavil, caul, 40 more

through Latin cumulus ‘heap, pile’

cumulus, 5 more

Today it means

noun A cumulate rock in which the groundmass is of different composition to the accumulated crystals.

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

Etymograph / Latin cumulus / orthocumulate

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