Grammar. pertaining to or productive of a form denoting increased size or intensity. In Spanish the augmentative suffix -ón is added to a word to indicate increased size, as in sillón “armchair.”
n. 名词 noun
Grammar. an augmentative element or formation.
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A diminutive hardly seems the right kind of word under the circumstances; an augmentative would, perhaps, have been better.
Note:—The rle of augmentative and diminutive suffixes in English is vastly less important than in Italian.
The augmentative forms, pre-eminently common in the Italian language, often carry with them a depreciating sense.
The MS. has Garees, a word not to be found in the dictionary, but evidently an augmentative of gara, a heron.
For the word wizard, from witch, see the section on augmentative forms.