I.an increase, enlargement, augmentation, growth (only ante- and post-class.): “corporis,” Lucr. 2, 495; 3, 268: “Augmine vel grandi vel parvo,” id. 1, 435: “augmine donare,” id. 2, 73; 5, 1307: “magni augminis coluber,” Arn. 7, p. 249.—In plur.: “Sursus enim versus gignuntur et augmina (flammarum corpora) sumunt,” Lucr. 2, 188: “cum sumant augmina noctes,” id. 5, 681; for Arn. 7, p. 231, v. augmentum fin.
augmen , ĭnis, n. augeo,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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