Lexicographical Neighbors of Augmentatives
Literary usage of Augmentatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Hand-book of the English Language: For the Use of Students of the by Robert Gordon Latham (1860)
"augmentatives. § 305. THE opposite to Diminutive is Augmentative, from the Latin
... Like the Diminutives, the augmentatives have secondary meanings ; and, ..."
2. A Brief Grammar of the Portuguese Language with Exercises and Vocabularies by John Casper Branner (1910)
"augmentatives are formed by the addition of the suffixes ão, arão, aça, anha,
az, azio, ... The augmentatives sometimes convey an idea of ridicule or irony. ..."
3. Italian Grammar by Charles Hall Grandgent (1887)
"augmentatives AND DIMINUTIVES; NUMERALS. AUGMENTATIVE AND DIMINUTIVE ENDINGS.
35. Instead of an adjective the Italians often use a suffix to express size or ..."
4. Italian Grammar by Charles Hall Grandgent, Ernest Hatch Wilkins (1915)
"augmentatives AND DIMINUTIVES; NUMERALS AUGMENTATIVE AND DIMINUTIVE ENDINGS 35.
Instead of a word expressing size or quality, the Italians often use a ..."
5. Elementary Spanish Grammar: With Practical Exercies for Reading by Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa (1915)
"augmentatives AND DIMINUTIVES 413. Some verbs may introduce an infinitive ...
augmentatives and Diminutives. The Spanish language is very rich in suffixes ..."
6. The elements of the English language by Ernest Adams (1858)
"augmentatives are words formed by the addition of a suffix which strengthens the
... The words steward, lizard, orchard, leopard, are not augmentatives ..."
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