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See also:AUGMENT (See also:Lat. augere, to increase) , in See also:Sanskrit and See also:Greek See also:grammar the vowel prefixed to indicate the past tenses of a verb; in Greek grammar it is called syllabic, when only the a is pre-fixed; temporal, when it causes an initial vowel in the verb to become a diphthong or See also:long vowel . |
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