augmentar

Borrowed from Late Latin augmentāre (“to increase”), from Latin augmentum (“growth, increase”), from augeō (“increase”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

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augmentar (first-person singular present augmento, first-person singular preterite augmentí, past participle augmentat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. (ambitransitive) to increase, augment

• augment
• augmentable
• augmentació
• augmentat
• augmentatiu

• “augmentar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April
• “augmentar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “augmentar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “augmentar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from English augment, French augmenter, German Augment, Italian aumentare, Spanish aumentar, ultimately from Late Latin augmentāre.

• IPA^(key): /au̯ɡmenˈtar/
• IPA^(key): /au̯ɡ.menˈtar/, /au̯ɡ.mɛnˈtaɾ/

augmentar (present tense augmentas, past tense augmentis, future tense augmentos, imperative augmentez, conditional augmentus)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to augment: to increase, enlarge, to make larger or more numerous
2. to raise (rents, prices, wages, etc.)

Conjugation of augmentar

		present		past		future
infinitive		augmentar		augmentir		augmentor
tense		augmentas		augmentis		augmentos
conditional		augmentus		—		—
imperative		augmentez		—		—
adjective active participle		augmentanta		augmentinta		augmentonta
adverbial active participle		augmentante		augmentinte		augmentonte
nominal active participle	singular	augmentanto		augmentinto		augmentonto
	plural	augmentanti		augmentinti		augmentonti
adjective passive participle		augmentata		augmentita		augmentota
adverbial passive participle		augmentate		augmentite		augmentote
nominal passive participle	singular	augmentato		augmentito		augmentoto
	plural	augmentati		augmentiti		augmentoti

• diminutar (“to diminish, lessen”)
• reduktar (“to reduce, to commute”)

• plucherigar (“to make dearer (in price)”)

augmentar

1. to increase, augment

augmentar (first-person singular present augmento, first-person singular preterite augmentei, past participle augmentado)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of aumentar.
   • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Fabiano”, in Vidas Seccas , Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 29:

     O gado augmentava, o serviço ia bem, mas o proprietario descompunha o vaqueiro.

     The cattle was increasing in number, the work was going well, but the landowner reprehended the cowhand.

• IPA^(key): /auɡmenˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: aug‧men‧tar

augmentar (first-person singular present augmento, first-person singular preterite augmenté, past participle augmentado)

1. obsolete form of aumentar

• “augmentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10