augment

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EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɔːɡˈmɛnt/
• (US) enPR: ôg-mĕntʹ IPA^(key): /ɔɡˈmɛnt/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɑɡˈmɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt
• Hyphenation: aug‧ment

VerbEdit

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.

TranslationsEdit

ReferencesEdit

• Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989

NounEdit

augment (plural augments)

1. (grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.

Derived termsEdit

• augmentless

TranslationsEdit

Related termsEdit

• auction
• augmentable
• augmentation

External linksEdit

• augment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• augment in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• augment at OneLook Dictionary Search

AnagramsEdit

• mutagen

French Wikipedia has an article on:

Augment

Wikipedia ^fr

EtymologyEdit

From Latin augmentum

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /oɡ.mɑ̃/

NounEdit

augment m (plural augments)

1. (mediaeval law) part of the estates which the 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. (marriage contract of the prince of Spain and Ms Elisabeth of France) note: this quote is in Middle French.

2. (grammar) augment

   Augment syllabique, celui qui consiste dans l’addition d’une syllabe, comme ετυπτον etupton, je frappais, imparfait de τυπτω tuptó, je frappe.

   Augment temporel, celui qui consiste dans le changement d’une brève en longue, comme ωριζον ówrizon, je bornais, de οριζω orizó, je borne.

ReferencesEdit

• "augment" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).