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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?????st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?????st/, /?-/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Hyphenation: au?gust

Etymology 1

From French auguste (“noble, stately; august”) or Latin augustus (“majestic, venerable, august; imperial, royal”), from auge? (“to augment, increase; to enlarge, expand, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?ewg- (“to enlarge, increase”). Doublet of Augustus.

Adjective

august (comparative auguster or more august, superlative augustest or most august)

1. Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable.
2. Of noble birth.

Derived terms

• augustly
• augustness

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From August.

Verb

august (third-person singular simple present augusts, present participle augusting, simple past and past participle augusted)

1. (obsolete, rare) To make ripe; ripen.
2. (obsolete, rare) To bring to realization.

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

august (plural augusts)

1. Alternative form of auguste (“kind of clown”)

References

Anagrams

• Tausug

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus. Doublet of agost, which was inherited through Vulgar Latin.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?w??ust/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /aw??ust/

Adjective

august (feminine augusta, masculine plural augusts or augustos, feminine plural augustes)

1. august (venerable, noble)

Derived terms

• augustament

Further reading

• “august” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /av??st/, [?w????sd?]

Noun

august c

1. August (the eighth month of the Gregorian calendar)

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) måned i den gregorianske kalender; januar, februar, marts, april, maj, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, december
  Obsolete words: glugmåned, blidemåned, tormåned, fåremåned, ?, ?, ormemåned, høstmåned, fiskemåned, liljemåned, slagtemåned, kristmåned ^{(Category: da:Months)}

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from German August.

Noun

august (genitive augusti, partitive augustit)

1. August

Inflection

Synonyms

• lõikuskuu
• põimukuu
• viljakuu
• rukkikuu
• mädakuu

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) Gregoriuse kalendri kuu; jaanuar, veebruar, märts, aprill, mai, juuni, juuli, august, september, oktoober, november, detsember ^{(Category: et:Months)}

Faroese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august m

1. August (month of the Gregorian calendar)

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) januar, februar, mars, apríl, mai, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, desember ^{(Category: fo:Months)}

Interlingua

Noun

august (plural augustes)

1. Alternative form of augusto

North Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august m

1. (Föhr-Amrum) August

See also

• months of the year in Föhr-Amrum North Frisian: janewoore, febrewoore, marts, april, mei, jüüne, jüüle, august, september, oktuuber, nofember, deetsember

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august (indeclinable)

1. August (eighth month of the year)

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) månad i den gregorianske kalenderen; januar, februar, mars, april, mai, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, desember ^{(Category: no:Months)}

References

• “august” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august m (indeclinable)

1. August (eighth month)

References

• “august” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin (mensis) augustus. Cf. also the inherited doublet agust and gust.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?aw.?ust/

Noun

august m (uncountable)

1. August

Synonyms

• gustar (colloquial, popular/folk name), gust / agust, m?s?lar (rarer popular/folk name)

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) lun? a calendarului gregorian; ianuarie, februarie, martie, aprilie, mai, iunie, iulie, august, septembrie, octombrie, noiembrie, decembrie ^{(Category: ro:Months)}

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French auguste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aw??ust/

Adjective

august m or n (feminine singular august?, masculine plural augu?ti, feminine and neuter plural auguste)

1. august, majestic, venerable

Declension

Synonyms

• sl?vit, pream?rit

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• avgust (Serbia)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. (Bosnia) August

Synonyms

• kolovoz (Croatia)

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) m(j)eseci gregorijanskog kalendara; januar/sije?anj, februar/velja?a, mart/ožujak, april/travanj, maj/svibanj, jun/juni/lipanj, jul/juli/srpanj, avgust/august/kolovoz, septembar/rujan, oktobar/listopad, novembar/studeni, decembar/prosinac ^{(Category: sh:Gregorian calendar months)}

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?au?ust]

Noun

august m (genitive singular augusta, nominative plural augusty, genitive plural augustov, declension pattern of dub)

1. August

Declension

Derived terms

• augustový

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) mesiac gregoriánskeho kalendára; január, február, marec, apríl, máj, jún, júl, august, september, október, november, december ^{(Category: sk:Months)}

Further reading

• august in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Sundanese

Noun

august

1. August

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Augustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u????s.t?s/
• Hyphenation: au?gus?tus

Noun

augustus m (uncountable)

1. August (month)

Descendants

• Afrikaans: Augustus
• ? Indonesian: Agustus
• ? Papiamentu: ougùstùs

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) maanden van de gregoriaanse kalender; januari, februari, maart, april, mei, juni, juli, augustus, september, oktober, november, december ^{(Category: nl:Months)}

Latin

Etymology

From auge? (“increase, grow, honor”). The month sext?lis was renamed after the emperor Augustus Caesar

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au???us.tus/, [äu????s?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au???us.tus/, [?u???ust?us]

Adjective

augustus (feminine augusta, neuter augustum, comparative augustior, superlative augustissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. august, majestic, venerable
2. of August, the sixth month of the Roman calendar
3. Augustan (pertaining to the Emperor Augustus)
4. imperial, royal

Usage notes

• Originally a word of religious use, but given as a title to the emperor Augustus
• In Latin, the month names are used as adjectives. In the Classical period, this adjective modifies a noun identifying a particular day, from which the date was reckoned. In Medieval Latin and later periods, the adjective modifies a numeral for the day of the month.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Synonyms

• (of the month of August): sext?lis

Related terms

Descendants

• Vulgar Latin: *agustus
  • Eastern Romance
    • Aromanian: agustu
    • Romanian: agust, gust
  • Franco-Provençal: août
  • Gallo-Italic
    • Emilian: agåsst
    • Ligurian: agósto
    • Lombard: agost, agust
    • Piedmontese: agust, aost, ost
  • Italo-Dalmatian
    • Corsican: aostu, austu, agostu
    • Dalmatian: aguast, agost
    • Italian: agosto
      • ? Cimbrian: agosto
    • Neapolitan: aùsto

      Tarantino: agúste

    • Sicilian: austu
      • ? Maltese: Awissu, Awwissu
  • Old French: aost
    • French: août
      • Guianese Creole: oût
      • Haitian Creole: out
      • Mauritian Creole: out
      • ? Persian: ???? (ut)
    • Norman:

      Cotentin: âot

      Guernsey: août, avout

      Jersey: Août

      Sark: u

    • Walloon: awousse
  • Old Occitan: agost
    • Catalan: agost
    • Occitan: agost
  • Rhaeto-Romance
    • Friulian: Avost
    • Ladin: aost
    • Romansch: avust, avuost, avost, uost
  • Sardinian: agústu, austu
  • Venetian: agosto
  • West Iberian
    • Extremaduran: agosto
    • Mozarabic: [script needed] (agóch), [script needed] (agóxt), [script needed] (agóxto)
    • Aragonese: agosto
    • Old Leonese: [Term?]
      • Asturian: agostu
      • Mirandese: Agosto
    • Old Portuguese: agosto
      • Fala: Agostu
      • Galician: agosto
      • Portuguese: agosto
        • Guinea-Bissau Creole: Agostu
        • Kabuverdianu: agostu
        • ? Hindi: ????? (agast)
        • ? Tetum: agostu
    • Old Spanish: agosto
      • Ladino: ogusto
      • Spanish: agosto (see there for further descendants)
  • ? Albanian: gusht
  • ? Old English: Agustus
    • Middle English: Augustus, August (relatinized)
      • English: August (see there for further descendants)
      • Scots: August
• ? Ancient Greek: ????????? (Aúgoustos)
  • Byzantine Greek: ????????? (Aúgoustos)
    • Greek: ????????? (Ávgoustos)
      • ? Aromanian: avgustu
    • ? Old East Slavic: ???????? (av?gust?)
      • Russian: ?????? (avgust) (see there for further descendants)
  • ? Coptic: ????????? (augoustos)
  • ? Old Armenian: ??????? (?gostos), ???????? (awgostos)
    • Armenian: ??????? (?gostos)
• ? Brythonic: [Term?]
  • Breton: Eost
  • Cornish: Est
  • Welsh: Awst

Unsorted borrowings

These borrowings are ultimately but perhaps not directly from Latin. They are organized into geographical and language family groups, not by etymology.

See also

• Augustus
• Roman calendar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• augustus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• augustus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• augustus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• augustus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• augustus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• augustus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• augustus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• augustus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Latvian

Noun

augustus m

1. accusative plural form of augusts

Limburgish

Noun

augustus

1. August (month)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Latin augustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u???øst?s/

Noun

augustus c (plural augustussen)

1. August

   Synonym: rispmoanne

Further reading

• “augustus”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011