augment

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English

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

Verb

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

augment (plural augments)

  1. (grammar) A grammatical prefix
    1. (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.
    2. (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.
    3. (Bantu languages) In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
  2. An increase.

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin augmentum.

Pronunciation

Noun

augment m (plural augments)

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

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augmentum or another European language.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

augment n (plural augmenten)

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

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French

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augmentum.

Pronunciation

Noun

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.
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      (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

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin augmentum.

Pronunciation

Noun

augment m inan

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

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Further reading

  • augment in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French augment or Latin augmentum.

Noun

augment n (plural augmente)

  1. increase, growth, augmentation

Declension