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august
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)
- Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable.
- 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)
- (obsolete, rare) To make ripe; ripen.
- (obsolete, rare) To bring to realization.
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
august (plural augusts)
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- Alternative form of augusto
North Frisian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin augustus.
Noun
august m
- (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 ??????)
- (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)
- 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
- August
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mammoth
English
Etymology
From obsolete Russian ??????? (mámant), modern ??????? (mámont), probably from a Uralic language, such as Proto-Mansi *m???-o?t (“earth-horn”). Compare Northern Mansi ??? (m?, “earth”), ????? (?n?t, “horn”). Adjectival use was popularized in the early 1800s by references to the Cheshire Mammoth Cheese presented to American paleontologist and president Thomas Jefferson.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mæm??/
Noun
mammoth (plural mammoths)
- Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.
- (obsolete) A mastodon.
- (figuratively) Something very large of its kind.
- 1973, Jeffrey Potter, Disaster by Oil (page 46)
- That is a lot of ship, about the the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs.
- 1973, Jeffrey Potter, Disaster by Oil (page 46)
Translations
Descendants
- ? Arabic: ???????? (m?m??)
- ? Hebrew: ????????? (mamúta)
- ? Hindi: ???? (maimath)
- ? Japanese: ???? (manmosu)
- ? Khmer: ???????? (maammout)
- ? Korean: ??? (maemeodeu)
- ? Thai: ?????? (m?m-m???t)
Adjective
mammoth (comparative more mammoth, superlative most mammoth)
- Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic.
- 1898, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Arrogant Frog and the Superior Bull, in Fables for the Frivolous (With Apologies to La Fontaine),
- “Ha! ha!” he proudly cried, “a fig / For this, your mammoth torso! / Just watch me while I grow as big / As you—or even more so!”
- 1999, Albert Isaac Slomovitz, The Fighting Rabbis: Jewish Military Chaplains and American History, New York University Press, page 103.
- 1898, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Arrogant Frog and the Superior Bull, in Fables for the Frivolous (With Apologies to La Fontaine),
Synonyms
- (very large): colossal, enormous, gigantic, huge, titanic
- See also Thesaurus:gigantic
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- mammoth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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