augmentar

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əwɡ.mənˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [awɡ.menˈtaɾ]

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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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “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.)

• 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 [Barren Lives], 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/ [au̯ɣ̞.mẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024