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21 Oregon
( oregón [oregón] < orejón? [orexón] < Latin auriculam 'little ear' and the Spanish augmentative -ón)The thirty-third state admitted to the Union in 1850. Hendrickson's contention that the model for Oregon may be the "Spanish oregones, meaning 'big-earred men' and referring to Indians who lived there" is unlikely, since the form could only result from a scribal error ({g} for {j})in Spanish and a spelling pronunciation in English. More likely sources are the other possibilities he points out: (1) "the Algonquian Wauregan (beautiful water) for the Colorado River" or (2) "an unclear Indian name possibly meaning 'place of the beaver' that was misspelled on an early French map." Thus Oregon is probably not a Hispanicism. -
22 piñon
Any of various dwarf pines that produce edible nuts. Watts gives Pinus edulis, P. monophylla, and P. parryana as examples and notes that Indians made the nuts of these trees part of their diets. The term also refers to the nuts of these trees. The DRAE glosses piñón as the seed of the pine tree and as a shrub of the euphorbiacous family, which grows in warm regions of the Americas to a height of about six and one-half to sixteen feet. It has heart-shaped leaves, petiolate and divided into lobules. It produces flowers on stalks and fleshy fruit with oily seeds, which are used medicinally as a purgative and commercially for their oil. The roots of the plant are made into a violet-colored dye. Santamaría references it as the purgative fruit of various species of the Jathophas species, especially J. curcas, J. multifida, and Curcas purgans. The name also refers to the plant itself, which produces a drupe or small nut, about three-quarters of an inch long, with strong oily, emetic, and poisonous properties. Cobos references piñon as the nut pine and its edible seed. It is common in the (Old) West.Alternate forms: pinion, pinyon. -
23 sacaton
Bentley: 1863.A southwestern plant ( Sporobolus wrightii) sometimes used as forage. The OED indicates that the term refers to various species of the genera Sporobolus and Epicampes. Santamaria glosses it as the common name of various wild grasses, including Muelembergia disticophylla and S. wrightii, used for making an industrial fiber. It generally grows in long, rigid rootstalks with leaves. In southeastern Mexico it is the primary vegetation on the plains or savannahs, where it grows as a shrub or in isolated groups of trees.Also called pajón (Mexico), bear grass (USA), it is commonly used as forage for cattle.Alternate forms: sacate, sacatone, zacaton.
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augmentative — [ôg men′tə tiv΄] adj. 1. augmenting or capable of augmenting 2. Gram. increasing the force of an idea expressed by a word or denoting increased size, intensity, etc. n. an augmentative affix, word, etc. (Ex.: per in perdurable, up in eatup) … English World dictionary
Augmentative — Aug*ment a*tive, a. [Cf. F. augmentatif.] Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation. {Aug*ment a*tive*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Augmentative — Aug*ment a*tive, n. (Gram.) A word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dull. Opposed to {diminutive}. Gibbs. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
augmentative — index cumulative (intensifying), supplementary Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
augmentative — c.1500, from M.Fr. augmentatif (14c.), from L. augmentat , stem of augmentare (see AUGMENT (Cf. augment)) … Etymology dictionary
Augmentative — An augmentative is a suffix or prefix added to a noun in order to convey the sense of greater intensity, often though not primarily indicating a larger size. It is the opposite of a diminutive.Augmentatives in a few languagesIn modern English,… … Wikipedia
augmentative — augmentatively, adv. /awg men teuh tiv/, adj. 1. serving to augment. 2. Gram. pertaining to or productive of a form denoting increased size or intensity. In Spanish the augmentative suffix ón is added to a word (as silla chair ) to indicate… … Universalium
augmentative — ● augmentatif, augmentative adjectif Se dit d un élément qui sert à renforcer le sens des mots (par exemple les préfixes archi , extra , super , sur , le suffixe issime). ● augmentatif, augmentative (synonymes) adjectif Se dit d un élément qui… … Encyclopédie Universelle
augmentative — /ɔgˈmɛntətɪv/ (say awg mentuhtiv) adjective 1. serving to augment. 2. Grammar relating to or productive of a form denoting increased size or intensity. In Spanish, ón added to a word indicates increased size (silla, chair ; sillón, armchair );… …
augmentative — I. adjective Date: 15th century 1. able to augment 2. indicating large size and sometimes awkwardness or unattractiveness used of words and affixes; compare diminutive II. noun Date: 1804 an augmentative word or affix … New Collegiate Dictionary
augmentative — aug•ment•a•tive [[t]ɔgˈmɛn tə tɪv[/t]] adj. 1) serving to augment 2) gram. Gram. pertaining to or productive of a form denoting increased size or intensity, as the Spanish suffix ón in sillón“armchair,” from silla“chair.” 3) gram. an augmentative … From formal English to slang
