auguste

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From French auguste, from German (dumme) August.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈaʊɡʊst/

[edit] Noun

auguste (plural augustes)

  1. A kind of circus clown.
    • 1971, It had been used for clownish mock-disappearences, one auguste looking for another through endlessly circling blackness, an apparatus not now much in use. — Anthony Burgess, M/F (Penguin 2004, p. 93)

[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /oɡyst/

[edit] Etymology 1

From Latin augustus ‘respected, consecrated’.

[edit] Adjective

auguste (epicene, plural augustes)

  1. august; noble, stately

[edit] Etymology 2

From German (dumme) August.

[edit] Noun

auguste m. (plural augustes)

  1. A type of clown with a white makeup.

[edit] Italian

[edit] Adjective

auguste f.

  1. Feminine plural form of augusto

[edit] Latin

[edit] Adjective

auguste

  1. vocative masculine singular of augustus

[edit] Novial

[edit] Etymology

A root word. Root: august-. Morphemes: august- + -e (2).

[edit] Noun

auguste

  1. August

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