incrementum Latin · revision 32060

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *kreh₁-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''incrēmentum''' ''n'' (genitive incrēmentī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|incrēscō|-mentum|t1=to grow, increase]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) from [[m|la|in-]] and [[m|la|crēscō|t=to grow]].^(Wiktionary) The verb [[m|la|crēscō]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*krē-|t=to grow]] and [[ine-pro|*kreh₁-|alt=*k(ʷ)reh₁-|t=to become bigger, stronger]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who says that, for the Epicureans, length of time adds no increase to the highest good.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is growth or increase, of plants and animals, as Cicero's growth of vines, and of the mind or character.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Ovid it is that which will grow into something, as the serpent's teeth that are the seeds of a future people.^(OLD 2012) It is also an addition, and in Virgil an offspring, “great offspring of Jupiter”;^(OLD 2012) Columella uses it of the amount of growth of plants.^(OLD 2012) Velleius uses it of advancement in rank, Pliny the Elder of the improvement of wine with age, and Quintilian of a figure of speech that rises through ever stronger expressions.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In medieval texts it is an accretion and the profit from coinage.^(Niermeyer 1976) Church Latin glosses it “increase, growth, augmentation”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of increase and of the growth of vines.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of offspring.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of the seeds of a people.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian of a figure of speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-15th century – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|increment]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|growth|alt=Growth]], [[m|en|increase]], development.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An addition; [[m|en|offspring]]; an offshoot.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Advancement in rank; improvement in quality.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' A [[m|en|climax]] of ever stronger expressions.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Profit from coinage.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[incrēmentulum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[incresco|alt=incrēscō]]

+ * [[cresco|alt=crēscō]]

+ * [[en|increment]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}