An augmentative is a suffix or prefix added to a word in order to convey the sense of a larger size. It is the opposite of a diminutive.
Augmentatives are generally more common in non-Englishlanguages.
In Spanish, -o becomes -ón and -a becomes -ona most frequently, but -ote/-ota and -azo/-aza are also commonly seen. Others include -udo/-uda, -aco/-aca, -acho/-acha, -uco/-uca, -ucho/-ucha, -astro/-astra and -ejo/-eja.
In Portuguese, -o becomes -ão, and -a becomes -ona. An -e becomes either -ão or -ona depending on whether it (if it is a noun) or what it is describing (if it is an adjective) is considered masculine or feminine, respectively.
The Klingon augment virus was a modified form of Levodian flu that threatened to wipe out the Klingon race in the mid-22nd century.
Around this time, the writing staff had recently concluded the three-part Augment Crisis arc, and it occurred to them that some of the genetically-engineered embryos might have survived the destruction of the Bird of Prey, and that the Klingons might use these embryos to bio-engineer their own version of "Klingon supermen".
In "Divergence", the female Laneth, newly infected by the Augment virus, claimed that she "felt fear for the first time since I was a child." Her fellow augmented warriors had "become like (humans)...
In Enterprise, Augments were introduced in "Borderland" and were the focus of a three-episode story arc that continued in "Cold Station 12" and "The Augments".
Augments, a group of genetically engineered "supermen", born in the late 1960s as the result of an ambitious project to improve the human race.
Arik Soong was director of the facility, and stole 19 of the embryos.
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