The story
- Latin · derived fromaugmentātiō
- Old French · derived fromaugmentacion
- Middle English · inherited fromaugmentation
- English todayaugmentation
From Middle English augmentation, augmentacion, augmentacioun, from Old French augmentacion, from Latin augmentātiō, verbal noun from augmentō (“increase”, verb).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.