incrementum

Latin

Etymology

From incrēscō (“grow, swell, increase”) +‎ -mentum.

Noun

incrēmentum n (genitive incrēmentī); second declension

1. growth, development, increase, augmentation
2. increment

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	incrēmentum	incrēmenta
Genitive	incrēmentī	incrēmentōrum
Dative	incrēmentō	incrēmentīs
Accusative	incrēmentum	incrēmenta
Ablative	incrēmentō	incrēmentīs
Vocative	incrēmentum	incrēmenta

Descendants

• → Catalan: increment
• → English: increment
• → French: incrément
• → Galician: incremento
• → Irish: incrimint
• → Italian: incremento
• → Portuguese: incremento
• → Romanian: increment
• → Russian: инкремент (inkrement)
• → Spanish: incremento

References

• “incrementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “incrementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• incrementum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• incrementum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.