Aggregated

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To result from the process of collecting and uniting disparate parts into one entity To arise as a total from the joining of multiple individual items To have achieved a state of cohesion by merging several distinct elements together
2. Brought together several separate parts to form a single combined unit
3. Joined various elements by collecting them into one larger group

Etymology: "Aggregated" is the past tense and past participle of "aggregate," a verb that comes from the Latin "aggregare," meaning "to add to the flock." It is built from "ad-" (toward) and "grex" (flock), so the original image is literally of animals or people gathering together in a herd. Its root also gave English "gregarious," and "egregious" traces back to the same flock: the Latin "egregius" meant "standing out from the flock," so an egregious thing once meant something singled out for praise before it came to mean something outrageous. In Middle English, "aggregate" first appeared as a noun for a sum or a whole made of many parts, borrowed through New Latin "aggregatum," a neuter form of the past participle "aggregatus." The verb arrived later, formed in English from that borrowed participle with the verb-forming ending "-en," which is why the past form "aggregated" follows the usual English pattern of adding "-ed."

Synonyms: combined, totaled

Antonyms: dispersed