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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)

  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

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pompous

English

Etymology

From Middle English pompous, from Old French pompeux, from Late Latin pomposus, from Latin pompa (pomp), from Ancient Greek ????? (pomp?, a sending, a solemn procession, pomp), from ????? (pémp?, I send). Doublet of pomposo.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?mp?s/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?p?mp?s/

Adjective

pompous (comparative more pompous, superlative most pompous)

  1. Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
    • 1848, Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair, Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
      "Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous, and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Samuel did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief."

Synonyms

  • conceited
  • smug
  • See also Thesaurus:arrogant

Antonyms

  • humble
  • modest
  • self-effacing

Related terms

  • pomp
  • pomposity
  • pompously

Translations

Further reading

  • pompous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • pompous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • pompous at OneLook Dictionary Search

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