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English
Etymology
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
- Verb:
- Noun:
- Hyphenation: aug‧ment
Verb
augment (third-person singular simple present augments, present participle augmenting, simple past and past participle augmented)
- (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.
- (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
- (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
- (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
- (grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.
Translations
to increase, make larger or supplement
- Bulgarian: увеличавам (bg) (uveličavam), прибавям (bg) (pribavjam)
- Catalan: augmentar (ca)
- Czech: rozšířit (cs), zvětšit (cs)
- Dutch: vergroten (nl), verhogen (nl), aanvullen (nl)
- Finnish: lisätä (fi), kasvattaa (fi), laajentaa (fi)
- French: augmenter (fr)
- German: vergrößern (de), erhöhen (de), vermehren (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: αὐξάνω (auxánō)
- Ido: augmentar (io)
- Italian: aumentare (it), crescere (it), accrescere (it), potenziare (it)
- Japanese: 増やす (ja) (fuyasu)
- Korean: 증가시키다 (jeunggasikida)
- Latin: augeo (la), accumulō
- Lithuanian: padidinti
- Maori: whakakaurahi, whakarawaka
- Norwegian: øke (no)
- Portuguese: aumentar (pt)
- Russian: (increase/make larger) увели́чивать (ru) impf (uvelíčivatʹ), увели́чить (ru) pf (uvelíčitʹ), (supplement) дополня́ть (ru) impf (dopolnjátʹ), допо́лнить (ru) pf (dopólnitʹ)
- Spanish: aumentar (es), incrementar (es)
- Swedish: öka (sv)
- Turkish: çoğaltmak (tr), artırmak (tr)
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to slow the tempo or meter
to increase an interval by a half step
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References
Noun
augment (plural augments)
- (grammar) A grammatical prefix
- (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.
- (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.
- (Bantu languages) In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
- An increase.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
grammar: prefix indicating past tense of verb
See also
Further reading
- “augment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “augment”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “augment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin augmentum.
Pronunciation
Noun
augment m (plural augments)
- increase, rise, rising
- (linguistics) augment
- (optics) magnification
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Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin augmentum or another European language.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑu̯xˈmɛnt/
- Hyphenation: aug‧ment
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
Noun
augment n (plural augmenten)
- (Indo-European grammar) augment (prefix before a past-tense verb)
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin augmentum.
Pronunciation
Noun
augment m (plural augments)
- (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)
- (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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Further reading
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin augmentum.
Pronunciation
Noun
augment m inan
- (grammar) augment (suffix in some Indo-European languages indicating the past tense)
Declension
Related terms
Further reading
- augment in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French augment or Latin augmentum.
Noun
augment n (plural augmente)
- increase, growth, augmentation
Declension