incrementum

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-

Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti

Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-sḱéti

Latin crēscō

Latin incrēscō

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Latin -mentum

Latin incrēmentum

From incrēscō (“grow, swell, increase”) + -mentum.

Noun

incrēmentum n (genitive incrēmentī); second declension

1. growth, development, increase, augmentation
2. increment

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	incrēmentum	incrēmenta
genitive	incrēmentī	incrēmentōrum
dative	incrēmentō	incrēmentīs
accusative	incrēmentum	incrēmenta
ablative	incrēmentō	incrēmentīs
vocative	incrēmentum	incrēmenta

Descendants

• → Catalan: increment
• → English: increment
• → French: incrément
• → Galician: incremento
• → Irish: incrimint
• → Italian: incremento
• → Portuguese: incremento
• → Romanian: increment
• → Russian: инкремент (inkrement)
• → Spanish: incremento

References

• “incrementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “incrementum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "incrementum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “incrementum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.