accumulo

Latin verb

Last edited: 2024-12-02
Primary meaning to add
Literal translation to accumulate
Variants
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to add mathematical operation, arithmetical operation

quemque locum superat nascens horoscopos, ille dena quater revocat vertentis tempora solis accumulatque duos cursus iuvenemque relinquit.

‘That place, above which stands the rising Horoscope, four times repeats ten seasons of the revolving Sun and heaps thereon two courses, and leaves one still a young man.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 3.608 ff

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 212-213


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). accumulo (Lemma #2409). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2409/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). accumulo (Lemma #2409). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2409/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). accumulo (Lemma #2409). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2409/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) accumulo (Lemma #2409), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2409/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac2409,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {accumulo ({Lemma} #2409)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2409/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2409/},
}