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augment

English edit

WOTD – 3 March 2010
 
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Etymology edit

From Middle English augmenten, from Middle French augmenter, from Old French augmenter, from Late Latin augmentare (“to increase”), from Latin augmentum (“an increase, growth”), from augere (“to increase”).

Pronunciation edit

  • Verb:
    • (UK) IPA(key): /ɔːɡˈmɛnt/
    • (US) IPA(key): /ɑɡˈmɛnt/
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    • Rhymes: -ɛnt
  • Noun:
  • Hyphenation: aug‧ment

Verb edit

augment (third-person singular simple present augments, present participle augmenting, simple past and past participle augmented)

  1. (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
    The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.
  2. (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
  3. (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
  4. (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
  5. (grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.

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Noun edit

augment (plural augments)

  1. (grammar) A grammatical prefix
    2. (Indo-European languages) In some languages, a prefix *é- (अ- (a-) in Sanskrit, ἐ- (e-) in Greek) indicating a past tense of a verb.
      The augment is found in Greek, Indo-Iranian, Armenian and Phrygian.
    4. (Celtic languages) Especially Old Irish, a preverb, usually ro-, used to give a verb a resultative or potential meaning.
      • 1987, Kim McCone, chapter IX, in The early Irish verb, 2nd edition, Maynooth: An Sagart, published 1997, →ISBN, section 3.1, page 93:
        Fundamentally the augment characterizes a verbal action viewed from a non-contemporary standpoint, either the moment of speaking (or writing) or a further verbal action.
    6. (Bantu languages) In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
  2. An increase.

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ewg-‎ (0 c, 22 e)

Translations edit

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Further reading edit

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Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Latin augmentum.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

augment m (plural augments)

  1. increase, rise, rising
  2. (linguistics) augment
  3. (optics) magnification

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Dutch edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin augmentum or another European language.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɑu̯xˈmɛnt/
  • Hyphenation: aug‧ment
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun edit

augment n (plural augmenten)

  1. (Indo-European grammar) augment (prefix before a past-tense verb)

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French edit

 
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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin augmentum.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

augment m (plural augments)

  1. (medieval law) part of an estate which a widow could inherit
    • Est aussi conclud et accordé qu'au lieu de douaire dont l'on a accoustumé d'user en France, ladite dame Elisabeth aura pour augment le dot dudit mariage selon l'usage des pais du roy d'Espagne, 166,666 escus d'or sol deux tiers.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      (marriage contract of the prince of Spain and Ms Elisabeth of France)
      note: this quote is in Middle French
  2. (grammar) augment
    L’augment syllabique consiste en l’addition d’une syllabe ; l’augment temporel, dans le changement d’une brève en longue.
    Syllabic augment consists of the addition of a syllable; temporal augment in changing it from short to long.

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Polish edit

 
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Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Latin augmentum.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

augment m inan

  1. (grammar) augment (suffix in some Indo-European languages indicating the past tense)

Declension edit

Declension of augment
singular plural
nominative augment augmenty
genitive augmentu augmentów
dative augmentowi augmentom
accusative augment augmenty
instrumental augmentem augmentami
locative augmencie augmentach
vocative augmencie augmenty

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adjectives
nouns

Further reading edit

  • augment in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French augment or Latin augmentum.

Noun edit

augment n (plural augmente)

  1. increase, growth, augmentation

Declension edit

Declension of augment
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) augment augmentul (niște) augmente augmentele
genitive/dative (unui) augment augmentului (unor) augmente augmentelor
vocative augmentule augmentelor
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