| 单词 | temporal augment |
| 释义 | > as lemmastemporal augment a. Grammar and Prosody. Relating to or depending on the quantity of syllables (i.e. the time taken in pronouncing them). temporal augment (Greek Grammar): see augment n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [adjective] > quantitative temporal1678 quantitative1798 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Temporal Augment, an Augmentation which is made in a Greek Verb, by increasing in several Tenses, the quantity of the first Vowel or Dipthong, as ἄγω ἦγον. 1860 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. 540 The ancient temporal metres were inexhaustible, because the permutations and combinations of the prosodical feet were infinite. 1863 tr. G. Curtius Greek Gram. §235 The Temporal Augment is used in all verbs which begin with a vowel. < as lemmas |
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