Where does “aumentar” come from?
aumentar (Galician) comes from Latin augmentāre, from Latin augmentum, from Latin augeō, from Proto-Italic augeō, from Proto-Indo-European h₂owg-éye-ti, from Proto-Indo-European h₂ewg-, from Proto-Indo-European h₂weg-, from Proto-Indo-European h₂ug-.
aumentar (Galician): to augment, increase; first/third-person singular...
Definitions
- to augment, increase; first/third-person singular...
Ancestry of “aumentar”, step by step
aumentar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin augmentāre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | augmentāre | — |
| 2 | Latin | augmentum | increase, growth, augmentation |
| 3 | Latin | augeō | to increase, augment, enlarge, spread, expand |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | augeō | to increase; to enlarge |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂owg-éye-ti | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ewg- | to increase, to enlarge |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂weg- | to increase, to enlarge |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ug- | — |
via Late Latin augmentare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Late Latin | augmentare | to increase; present active infinitive of... |