augment

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

• Verb:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ɔːɡˈmɛnt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ɑɡˈmɛnt/

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  • Rhymes: -ɛnt
• Noun:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːɡmənt/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɡmənt/

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• Hyphenation: aug‧ment

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.

• “augment” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

augment (plural augments)

1. (grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.
2. (grammar) In some Bantu languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
3. An increase.

• augmentless

• auction
• augmentable
• augmentation

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

• mutagen, negatum

Borrowed from Latin augmentum.

augment m (plural augments)

1. increase, rise, rising

• augmentar

Borrowed from Latin augmentum.

• IPA^(key): /oɡ.mɑ̃/

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augment m (plural augments)

1. (medieval 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

   L'augment syllabique consiste en l’addition d’une syllabe ; l'augment temporel, dans le changement d’une brève en longue.

• augmenter

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