different between augmentation vs anabasis

English

Etymology

From Middle English augmentation, augmentacion, augmentacioun, from Old French augmentacion, from Latin augment?ti?, verbal noun from augment? (“increase”, verb).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

augmentation (countable and uncountable, plural augmentations)

1. The act or process of augmenting.
2. (heraldry) A particular mark of honour, granted by the sovereign in consideration of some noble action, or by favour; and either quartered with the family arms, or on an escutcheon or canton.
3. (medicine) A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation.
4. (medicine) The stage of a disease during which symptoms increase or continue.
5. (music) A compositional technique where the composer lengthens the melody by lengthening its note values.
6. (Scotland, law) An increase of stipend obtained by a parish minister by an action raised in the Court of Teinds against the titular and heritors.

Related terms

• augmentative
• augmented
• auxiliary
• diminution

Translations

References

• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]

Anagrams

• Mountain Gate

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin augment?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?.m??.ta.sj??/

Noun

augmentation f (plural augmentations)

1. An increase, a raise

   Synonym: hausse

   Antonyms: diminution, baisse

2. A pay raise

Related terms

• augmenter

Further reading

• “augmentation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???????? (anábasis, “a going up, an ascent”), from ???????? (anabaín?), from ????- (ana-, “up”) + ????? (baín?, “to go”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??næb?s?s/

Noun

anabasis (plural anabases)

1. (historical) a military march up-country, especially that of Cyrus the Younger into Asia.
   • 1838, Thomas de Quincey, The Avenger:

     During the French anabasis to Moscow he entered our service, made himself a prodigious favorite with the whole imperial family, and even now is only in his twenty?second year.

   • 1989, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:

     ‘I have a feeling that if we follow a scent of spring on the air with sufficient eagerness we’ll come to a south without snow more quickly than we think. Thalassa, thalassa. This is what the Greeks called an anabasis.’ They looked at him as if he were barmy.

   • 1989, Frederic Stewart Colwell, Rivermen, p. 47:

     The Wordsworthian journey to the source […] is more of an amble than an anabasis or strenuous heroic quest.

2. (obsolete) The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.

Antonyms

• catabasis, katabasis

Translations

Further reading

• anabasis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• anabasis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???????? (anábasis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?na.ba.sis/, [ä?näbäs??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?na.ba.sis/, [??n??b?s?is]

Noun

anabasis f (genitive anabasis); third declension

1. a plant: horse-tail
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

References

• ?n?b?s?s in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ?n?b?sis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 121/2
• anabasis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “anabasis” on page 125/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)