augmentum

Latin

Etymology

augeō +‎ -mentum.

Noun

augmentum n (genitive augmentī); second declension

1. increase, growth, augmentation

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	augmentum	augmenta
Genitive	augmentī	augmentōrum
Dative	augmentō	augmentīs
Accusative	augmentum	augmenta
Ablative	augmentō	augmentīs
Vocative	augmentum	augmenta

Derived terms

• augmentō

Descendants

• → Catalan: augment
• → English: augment
• → French: augment
• → Galician: aumento
• → Italian: aumento
• → Occitan: aument
• → Portuguese: aumento
• → Romanian: augment
• → Spanish: aumento

References

• “augmentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• augmentum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• augmentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.