augustus

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Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin Augustus. Doublet of oogst.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ɑu̯ˈɣʏs.tʏs/, /ɑu̯ˈɣʏs.təs/
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  • Hyphenation: au‧gus‧tus

Noun[edit]

augustus m (uncountable)

  1. August (month)

Descendants[edit]

  • Afrikaans: Augustus
  • Negerhollands: august
  • →? Caribbean Hindustani: agast
  • → Caribbean Javanese: agustus
  • → Indonesian: Agustus
  • → Papiamentu: ougùstùs
  • → Sranan Tongo: augustus
  • → Trió: ahkëtë

See also[edit]

Latin[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Italic *augostos (“amplified, increased, augmented, strengthened”), from *augos (“an increase, augmentation”) +‎ *-tos, an old neuter s-stem formed to the root of Latin augeō (“I increase, enlarge”). Its descendant appears in Classical Latin as augur, auguris with shifted gender/sense ("augur") and levelling of the -r-.[1][2] The month sextīlis was renamed after the emperor Caesar Augustus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

augustus (feminine augusta, neuter augustum, comparative augustior, superlative augustissimus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. august, solemn, majestic, venerable
  2. of August, the sixth month of the Roman calendar
  3. Augustan (pertaining to the Emperor Augustus)
  4. imperial, royal

Usage notes[edit]

  • Originally a word of religious use, but given as a title to the emperor Augustus.
  • In Latin, the month names are used as adjectives. In the Classical period, this adjective modifies a noun identifying a particular day, from which the date was reckoned. In Medieval Latin and later periods, the adjective modifies a numeral for the day of the month.

Declension[edit]

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative augustus augusta augustum augustī augustae augusta
Genitive augustī augustae augustī augustōrum augustārum augustōrum
Dative augustō augustō augustīs
Accusative augustum augustam augustum augustōs augustās augusta
Ablative augustō augustā augustō augustīs
Vocative auguste augusta augustum augustī augustae augusta

Synonyms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Latin: agustus (see there for further descendants)
Unsorted borrowings

These borrowings are ultimately but perhaps not directly from Latin. They are organized into geographical and language family groups, not by etymology.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “augeō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 61–62
  2. ^ Moreno Morani (1984) “Augurium augur augustus: una questione di metodo”, in Glotta (in Italian), volume 62, →JSTOR, pages 65–71

Further reading[edit]

  • “augustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “augustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • augustus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • augustus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “augustus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]
  • “augustus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “augustus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “augustus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Latvian[edit]

Noun[edit]

augustus m

  1. accusative plural of augusts

Limburgish[edit]

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Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin augustus (“month of August”). Doublet of ougs.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ɑu̯ˈɣʏs.tʏs/, /ɑu̯ˈɣʏs.təs/
    IPA(key): (Maastrichtian) [ɔʋˈɣʏs.təs]
  • Hyphenation: au‧gus‧tus
  • Rhymes: -ʏstʏs, -ʏstəs

Noun[edit]

augustus

  1. August (month)

West Frisian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin augustus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

augustus c (plural augustussen)

  1. August
    Synonym: rispmoanne

Further reading[edit]

  • “augustus”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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