The corpus record — Latin

acervo

acervo · v. a

to form a heap

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Where it lives

De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
Naturalis Historia 7 · 0.18/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

ăcervo — Lewis & Short

ăcervo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.acervus,

I to form a heap, to heap or pile up, to amass (rare, not in Cic.; per. not before the Aug. period).

I Prop.: jam pigritiā singulos sepeliendi promiscue acervatos cumulos hominum urebant, Liv. 5, 48, 3: aggerem, Sen. Here. Fur. 1216: panicum praedensis acervatur granis, Plin. 18, 7, 10: acervantur muricum modo, they gather or collect together, id. 32, 9, 31.—

II Trop., to accumulate, to multiply: leges, Liv. 3, 34; Quint. 9, 3, 47; Plin. 26, 4, 10, § 21; 36, 15, 24, § 101 al.

In the wild

acervati Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.8.p9
acervat Statius, Thebais 3.214
acervata Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.15.p2
acervantur Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.3.47
acervatur Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.7.p5
acervata Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.2.p88

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.