different between august vs imperial

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

Etymology

From Middle English imperial, from Old French imperial, from Latin imperi?lis (“of the empire or emperor, imperial”), from imperium (“empire, imperial government”) + -?lis, from imper? (“command, order”), from im- (“form of in”) + par? (“prepare, arrange; intend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?p?.?i.?l/

Adjective

imperial (comparative more imperial, superlative most imperial)

1. Related to an empire, emperor, or empress.
2. Relating to the British imperial system of measurement.
3. Very grand or fine.
4. Of special, superior, or unusual size or excellence.

Synonyms

• (humorous): in old money

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

imperial (countable and uncountable, plural imperials)

1. A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 6 liters of fluid, eight times the volume of a standard bottle.
2. (paper, printing) A writing paper size measuring 30 × 22 inches, or printing paper measuring 32 × 22 inches.
3. (card games, uncountable) A card game differing from piquet in some minor details, and in having a trump.
4. (card games, countable) Any of several combinations of cards which score in this game.
5. A crown imperial.

   • Is all too fettered for the poet's powers,

     Compelled to crowd his flush and airy flowers

     Like pots of tall imperials, ill at ease.

6. A tuft of hair on the lower lip (so called from its use by Napoleon III).

   Synonym: royal

7. A kind of dome, as in Moorish buildings.
8. (historical) An outside seat on a diligence.
9. (countable, uncountable) A variety of green tea.

Usage notes

• A champagne or Burgundy wine bottle with the same volume would be called a Methuselah.

Anagrams

• Palmieri

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imperi?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /im.p?.?i?al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /im.pe.?i?al/

Adjective

imperial (masculine and feminine plural imperials)

1. imperial

Derived terms

• imperialisme
• imperialista

Related terms

• emperador
• imperi

Further reading

• “imperial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “imperial” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “imperial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “imperial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Adjective

imperial m or f (plural imperiais)

1. imperial

Derived terms

• imperialismo
• imperialista

Related terms

• imperio

Further reading

• “imperial” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• inperial, imperyal, inperyal, imperyall, imperiall, emperiall, empirial

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French imperial, emperial, from Latin imperi?lis; equivalent to emperie +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imp?ri?a?l/, /im?p??rial/, /?m-/

Adjective

imperial (plural and weak singular imperiale)

1. Imperial; related to or being of an empire or its ruler.
2. Befitting or appropriate for someone of imperial rank; superb.
3. Unsurpassed, unmatched; lacking an equal or equivalent.

Descendants

• English: imperial
• Scots: imperial

References

• “imperi??l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-24.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imperi?lis.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: im?pe?ri?al

Adjective

imperial m or f (plural imperiais, comparable)

1. imperial

Derived terms

• imperialismo
• imperialista

Related terms

• império
• imperador

Noun

imperial f (plural imperiais)

1. (Portugal, regional) draft beer
   • 2013, Afonso Cruz, Alice Vieira, André Gago, Catarina Fonseca, David Machado, Isabel Stidwell, José Fanha, A misteriosa mulher da ópera, Leya ?ISBN, page 155

     «Traga-me mais uma imperial», disse eu ao empregado. Tinha uma praticamente cheia, mas não gosto de ser apanhado desprevenido. O Juvenal julgou que era para ele e agradeceu, eu disse-lhe «nada», e peguei na imperial, passei as ...

   Synonyms: (Portugal, regional) fino, (Brazil) chope

Further reading

• “imperial” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French impérial and Latin imperi?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?im.pe.ri?al/

Adjective

imperial m or n (feminine singular imperial?, masculine plural imperiali, feminine and neuter plural imperiale)

1. imperial

Declension

Related terms

• imperialism
• imperiu
• împ?rat

Scots

Adjective

imperial (comparative mair imperial, superlative maist imperial)

1. imperial

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imperi?lis (“of the empire or emperor, imperial”), from imperium (“empire, imperial government”) + -?lis, from imper? (“command, order”), from im- (“form of in”) + par? (“prepare, arrange; intend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /impe??jal/, [?m.pe??jal]

Adjective

imperial (plural imperiales)

1. imperial

Derived terms

• cormorán imperial
• garza imperial
• imperialismo
• imperialista
• manjar imperial

Related terms

• emperador
• imperio

Further reading

• “imperial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.