The augmentative forms, pre-eminently common in the Italian language, often carry with them a depreciating sense.
Words like braggadocio, trombone, balloon, being words of foreign origin, prove nothing as to the further existence of augmentative forms in English.
For the word wizard, from witch, see the section on augmentative forms.
Perhaps the greatest stumbling-block in the way of acquiring familiarity with the art of conversing in Italian is the capricious use of the augmentative and diminutive terminations of words.
The augmentative of a feminine noun never ought strictly to be 'ona;' but there are numerous instances, scarcely to be remembered under the largest practice, in which a feminine noun takes a masculine augmentative.
For {222} the word wizard, from witch, see the section on augmentative forms.
Ladyman, Priestman, or may be merely an augmentative suffix.
As a balcone is not an upper chamber, nor a chamber over a gate, but is precisely "a loftlike erection supported upon beams," it seems more reasonable to suppose it an augmentative formed in the usual way from balco.
This gives us an earlier form andier, and the augmentative andieron would be our word.
The vegetable possesses the qualities of the mineral plus an augmentative virtue, or power of growth.
The vegetable possesses the qualities of the mineral plus the augmentativevirtue or power of growth.
Likewise, he embodies the augmentative virtue, or power of growth, which characterizes the kingdom of the vegetable.
In the vegetable kingdom it is the augmentative spirit or power of growth, the animus of life and development in plants, trees and organisms of the floral world.
The vegetable kingdom possesses cohesive properties plus the power of growth, or augmentative power.
Further, as the augmentative power requires a fixed time for its act, so also does the generative power: for both are natural powers belonging to the vegetative soul.
This is also necessary for the action of the augmentative and generative powers.
Therefore the augmentative power of the soul is not distinct from the generative power.
The nutritive and the augmentative have their effect where they exist, since the body itself united to the soul grows and is preserved by the augmentative and nutritive powers which exist in one and the same soul.
And the generative power is served by the augmentative and nutritive powers; and the augmentative power by the nutritive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "augmentative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
