Word: author

Author, auction, augment, auxiliary, august, and augur are one word in six disguises. The PIE root *h₂eug- ("to increase") gave Latin augēre, "to increase, enlarge, enrich," whose past participle auctus produced a noun-family English borrowed wholesale: auctor ("one who causes to grow, originator, founder" — author), auctiō ("an increasing-event, public sale by rising bids" — auction), augmentum…