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nota augens

nota augens noun: an Old Irish pronominal clitic added to the end of an accentual unit containing a pronoun, now more commonly called emphatic suffixes.

Noun

nota augens (plural notae augentes)

  1. (Celtic linguistics) An Old Irish pronominal clitic added to the end of an accentual unit containing a pronoun, now more commonly called emphatic suffixes.
  2. (Celtic linguistics) A Welsh reduplicated or conjunctive pronoun (appearing in modern Welsh as minnau, tithau, yntau, hithau, ninnau, chwithau, and hwythau).

Forms of nota augens

pluralnotae augentes

Origin of nota augens

From New Latin nota augēns, from nota (“mark, sign; critical mark or remark; note”) + augēns (“increasing, augmenting”). Coined by Zeuss in his Grammatica Celtica.

Questions about nota augens

What does nota augens mean?
Nota augens means an Old Irish pronominal clitic added to the end of an accentual unit containing a pronoun, now more commonly called emphatic suffixes.
What part of speech is nota augens?
Nota augens is a noun.
What is the plural of nota augens?
The plural of nota augens is notae augentes.

Words near nota augens in the dictionary

  1. not-so-hot
  2. not-thereness
  3. not-to-scale
  4. not.
  5. nota
  6. nota augens
  7. nota bene
  8. notabilia
  9. notabilities
  10. notability
  11. notable

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