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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
AUGMENTATIVE
a.Having the quality or power of augmenting.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
AUGMENTATIVE
Aug *ment "a *tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. augmentatif.]
Defn: Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation. -- Aug *ment "a *tive *ly, adv.
AUGMENTATIVE
AUGMENTATIVE Aug *ment "a *tive, n. (Gram. )
Defn: A word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dull. Opposed to diminutive. Gibbs.
New American Oxford Dictionary
augmentative
aug ment a tive |ôgˈmentətiv ɔɡˈmɛn (t )ədɪv | ▶adjective Grammar (of an affix or derived word ) reinforcing the idea of the original word, esp. by meaning ‘a large —,’ as with the Italian suffix -one in borrone ‘ravine, ’ compared with borro ‘ditch. ’ ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘having a tendency to increase ’): from Old French augmentatif, -ive or medieval Latin augmentativus, from the verb augmentare (see augment ).
Oxford Dictionary
augmentative
aug |men ¦ta |tive |ɔːgˈmɛntətɪv | ▶adjective Linguistics (of an affix or derived word ) reinforcing the idea of the original word, especially by meaning ‘a large one of its kind ’, as with the Italian suffix -one in borrone ‘ravine ’, compared with borro ‘ditch ’. ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘having a tendency to increase ’): from Old French augmentatif, -ive or medieval Latin augmentativus, from the verb augmentare (see augment ).
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
augmentative
aug men ta tive /ɔːɡméntətɪv /形容詞 1 増大する, 増加的な .2 〘文法 〙〈接辞 派生語が 〉指大 (辞 )の, 語義を拡大する .名詞 C 〘文法 〙指大辞 [語 ](↔diminutive ).
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