different between august vs dashing

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

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?dæ???(?)/
• Rhymes: -æ???

Etymology 1

From Middle English daschande, equivalent to dash +? -ing.

Adjective

dashing (comparative more dashing, superlative most dashing)

1. Spirited, audacious and full of high spirits.
2. Chic, fashionable.

   All heads turned as the dashing young man entered the room.

Derived terms

• dashingly

Translations

Verb

dashing

1. present participle of dash

Etymology 2

From Middle English dasshyng, dasshynge, equivalent to dash +? -ing.

Noun

dashing (countable and uncountable, plural dashings)

1. The action of the verb to dash.

Anagrams

• shading