amasser

From amass +‎ -er.

amasser (plural amassers)

1. One who amasses.
   • 1677, John Webster, chapter 4, in The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft‎^[1], London, page 59:

     [He] was a man of prodigious pride and vain-glory, which led him […] into no small errours, being a great Amasser of strange and incredible stories, led to relate them by his meer ambition of hunting after fame and the reputation of an universal Scholar.

   • 1821, William Hazlitt, Table-Talk, London: John Warren, Essay 11, “On Thought and Action,” p. 260,^[2]

     The amassers of fortunes seem divided into two opposite classes, lean, penurious-looking mortals, or jolly fellows who are determined to get possession of, because they want to enjoy the good things of the world.

   • 1941, Cole Porter, “Pets,” lyrics written for the Broadway musical Let’s Face It! cited in Robert Kimball (ed.), The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, New York: Da Capo, 1992, p. 309,^[3]

     Some folks collect paintings,

     Some folks collect stamps,

     Some are amassers

     Of antimacassars

     And other Victorian camps.

   • 1944, George Weller, Bases Overseas, excerpt published in Anthony Weller (ed.), Weller’s War, New York: Crown, 2009, p. 488,^[4]

     The first act of the Japanese army on arriving at a new island is to go fishing and start a garden. The first act of the Americans is to buy something from the natives. The American is an amasser.

   • 2014, Judith Donath, chapter 11, in The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online,‎^[5], Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, page 280:

     Marketers […] are among the most voracious amassers of information about what people do and say online.

• accumulator
• collector

• samares

Inherited from Old French amasser. By surface analysis, a- +‎ masse +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /a.ma.se/ ~ /a.mɑ.se/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: amassai, amassé, amassée, amassées, amassés, amassez

amasser

1. (transitive) to amass; to gather up
2. (pronominal) to accumulate, to build up
3. (pronominal, Louisiana) to huddle

• pierre qui roule n’amasse pas mousse

• ramasser

• “amasser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)

• armasse
• massera
• ramasse, ramassé
• rasâmes

amasser

1. to collect up; to get together
   • 1260–1267, Brunetto Latini, “Cist premiers livres parole de la naissance de toutes choses [This first book talks about the birth of all things]” (chapter 1), Livre I - Premiere partie, in Livres dou Tresor [Book of Treasures]; republished as Polycarpe Chabaille, compiler, Li livres dou tresor par Brunetto Latini‎^[6], Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1863, page 1:

     si come li sires qui vuet en petit leu amasser choses de grandisme vaillance […] por acroistre son pooir […] i met il les plus chieres choses et les plus precieux joiaus que il puet, selonc sa bone entencion, tout autressi est li cors de cest livre compilez de sapience

     Just like the lord, who wishes to accumulate very valuable things in a tiny place […] in order to increase his power, […] puts there—according to his good intention—the dearest things and the most precious jewels he can, so the body of this book is filled with knowledge

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-sss, *-sst are modified to s, s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• asambler

• French: amasser