cumulate

First attested in 1534; borrowed from Latin cumulātus, perfect passive participle of cumulō (“to pile up”), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Sporadic participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuː.mjʊˌleɪt/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkju.mjəˌleɪt/

adjective, noun

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːmjʊlət/

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

1. (transitive) To accumulate; to amass.

   Synonyms: amass, heap up, see Thesaurus:pile up

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2. (intransitive) To be accumulated.

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cumulate (comparative more cumulate, superlative most cumulate)

1. Accumulated, agglomerated, amassed.
2. (obsolete, as a participle) Cumulated.
   • 1633, Thomas Adams, A commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter, chapter II:

     A cumulate or heaped fulness, when it overflows the continent.

cumulate (plural cumulates)

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

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• IPA^(key): /ku.muˈla.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: cu‧mu‧là‧te

cumulate

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

cumulate

1. feminine plural of cumulato

cumulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cumulō

• “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.

cumulate

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