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augment

verb, noun — 9 senses

augment

verb

UK /ɔːɡˈmɛnt/ · US /ɔɡˈmɛnt/

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”).

1

To increase; to make larger or supplement.

  • The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.
2

To grow; to increase; to become greater.

3

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.

4

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).

5

Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences To add an augment to.

Synonyms
add, amplify, augment, dilate, eke / eke out, elevate, embiggen, enhance, enlarge, enlargen, enrich, greaten, grow, increase, increment, largen, magnify, propagate, raise, strengthen, swell, up
Antonyms
contract, dial back, diminish
Derived terms
augmentary, augmentee, augmentive, bioaugment, reaugment
Hypernyms
alter
Hyponyms
blow up, inflate, pump up, maximize, max out, deepen, lengthen, widen, skyrocket, improve, speed up

augment

noun

UK /ˈɔːɡmɛnt/ · US /ˈɔɡmɛnt/

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”).

› A grammatical prefix

1

Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences In some languages, a prefix *é- (अ- (a-) in Sanskrit, ἐ- (e-) in Greek) indicating a past tense of a verb.

Indo-European languages

  • The augment is found in Greek, Indo-Iranian, Armenian and Phrygian.
2

Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Especially Old Irish, a preverb, usually ro-, used to give a verb a resultative or potential meaning.

Celtic languages

  • 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.1987, Kim McCone, chapter IX, in The early Irish verb, 2nd edition, Maynooth: An Sagart, published 1997, →ISBN, section 3.1, page 93:
3

Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.

Bantu languages

4

An increase.

Derived terms
augmentless
Related terms
auction, augmentable, augmentation, august, author, authorize, auxiliary

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.

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