cumulate

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English

Etymology

From Latin cumulatus, past participle of cumulo (to pile up).

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Verb

cumulate (third-person singular simple present cumulates, present participle cumulating, simple past and past participle cumulated)

  1. (transitive) To accumulate; to amass.
  2. (intransitive) To be accumulated.

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Adjective

cumulate (comparative more cumulate, superlative most cumulate)

  1. accumulated, agglomerated, amassed

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Noun

cumulate (plural cumulates)

  1. (geology) An igneous rock formed by the accumulation of crystals from a magma either by settling or floating.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

cumulate

  1. inflection of cumulare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

cumulate f pl

  1. feminine plural of cumulato

Latin

Verb

cumulāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of cumulō

References

  • cumulate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cumulate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cumulate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

cumulate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of cumular combined with te