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AUGMENT (Lat. augere, to increase)
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AUGMENT (Lat. augere, to increase), in Sanskrit and Greek 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 long vowel.