Augment has several meanings. Firstly it means to transform something that is being developed larger in size, quantity or extent. In linguistics augment means to add an augment to something. In music to augment is to raise the upper note of a chord or an interval by half a step. In heraldry it is used to grant an augment to (as in a coat of arms).
An augment is a syllable in linguistics that is added to the beginning of some words in Greek, Sanskrit, Armenian to form aorist, preterite or perfect tenses. It is uncertain whether the augment has been added to all these branches of Indo European languages over time or whether it was a part of the parent language and was subsequently lost by all the other languages like Proto Greek.
An augment is a syllable in linguistics that is added to the beginning of some words in Greek, Sanskrit, Armenian to form aorist, preterite or perfect tenses. It is uncertain whether the augment has been added to all these branches of Indo European languages over time or whether it was a part of the parent language and was subsequently lost by all the other languages like Proto Greek.
