different between auguste vs octavius

English

Etymology

From French auguste, from German (dumme) August.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a???st/

Noun

auguste (plural augustes)

1. (theater) A kind of clown, usually serving as an anarchic foil to the whiteface.
   • 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F (Penguin 2004), page 93:

     It had been used for clownish mock-disappearences, one auguste looking for another through endlessly circling blackness, an apparatus not now much in use.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.?yst/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin augustus. Doublet of août, which was inherited.

Adjective

auguste (plural augustes)

1. august; noble, stately

Etymology 2

From German (dumme) August.

Noun

auguste m (plural augustes)

1. A type of clown with a white makeup.

Further reading

• “auguste” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

auguste

1. feminine plural of augusto

Latin

Adjective

auguste

1. vocative masculine singular of augustus

References

• auguste in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• auguste in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• auguste in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From New Latin octavius.

Noun

octavius

1. (historical) The pint (eighth of a gallon) in the apothecaries' system.

Synonyms

• octarius

Latin

Alternative forms

• oct?rius

Etymology

New Latin; like the previously existing proper noun Oct?vius, from oct?vus (“eighth”) +? -ius; see also oct?rius.

Noun

oct?vius m (genitive oct?vi? or oct?v?); second declension

1. The pint (eighth of a gallon) in the apothecaries' system.^{[p27][p582][p43]}

Declension

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References