cumulo

cumulo

See also: cúmulo and cumulò

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈku.mu.lo/
  • Rhymes: -umulo
  • Hyphenation: cù‧mu‧lo

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin cumulus. Doublet of cumolo, and possibly mucchio.

Noun

cumulo m (plural cumuli)

  1. heap, pile
  2. (meteorology) cumulus (cloud)
  3. mound

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cumulo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cumulare

Latin

Etymology

    From cumulus (a heap) + .

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    cumulō (present infinitive cumulāre, perfect active cumulāvī, supine cumulātum); first conjugation

    1. to heap, pile up, amass, accumulate
      Synonyms: accumulō, exstruō, struō, onerō, inaedificō, colligō
    2. to fill by heaping, overload
      Synonyms: impleō, expleō, compleō, repleō, stīpō, imbuō
      Antonyms: exhauriō, dēpleō, dēfundō
    3. to increase, augment
      Synonyms: adiciō, multiplicō, augeō, incitō, accumulō
      Antonyms: diminuō, minuō, dēminuō, imminuō, tenuō, premō, corripiō
    4. (figuratively) to make complete, accomplish
      Synonyms: perficiō, cōnficiō, dēfungor, absolvō, agō, expleō, patrō, conclūdō, condō, impleō, exsequor, fungor, efficiō, nāvō, perpetrō, trānsigō, gerō, peragō, claudō, inclūdō, exhauriō

    Conjugation

    1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Asturian: combrar
    • English: cumulate (borrowing)
    • French: combler, cumuler (borrowing)
    • Italian: cumulare (borrowing) colmare
    • Portuguese: colmar, cumular (borrowing)
    • Sicilian: curmari
    • Spanish: colmar, cumular (borrowing)

    References

    • cumulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • cumulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • cumulo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
    • cumulo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • his crowning happiness is produced by a thing; the culminating point of his felicity is..: aliquid felicitatem magno cumulo auget
      • to (richly) recompense a kindness or service: beneficium remunerari or reddere (cumulate)
      • to overwhelm with eulogy: omni laude cumulare aliquem
      • to heap crime on crime: scelus scelere cumulare (Catil. 1. 6. 14)

    Portuguese

    Verb

    cumulo

    1. first-person singular present indicative of cumular

    Spanish

    Verb

    cumulo

    1. first-person singular present indicative of cumular