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Augment
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
(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 E is prefixed; temporal, when it causes an initial vowel in the verb to become a diphthong or long vowel.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Augment'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/augment.html. 1910.