Augustus

See also: augustus

English

Etymology

From Latin Augustus, from augustus (“majestic, venerable”). Doublet of august.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ô-gŭsʹtəs, IPA^(key): /ɔːˈɡʌstəs/
• Hyphenation: Au‧gus‧tus

Proper noun

Augustus

1. The Roman emperor Augustus, also called Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (63 B.C.E. – 14 C.E.); heir to Julius Caesar
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 2:1:

     And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.

2. A male given name from Latin, risen in popularity since the 18th century.

Synonyms

• (Emperor Augustus): Octavian, Octavius

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Augustan
• female given name: Augusta
• male given names: August, Augustine, pet form: Gus

• Fort Augustus
• Pax Augusta

Translations

Roman emperor

• Alemannic German: Augustus m
• Armenian: Օգոստոս (Ōgostos)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܓܘܣܛܘܣ
• Bengali: ঔগস্টস m (ōugosṭoś)
• Catalan: August (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 奧古斯都／奥古斯都 (ou³ gu² si¹ dou¹), 奥古斯都 (ou³ gu² si¹ dou¹)

  Hakka: 奧古斯都／奥古斯都, 奥古斯都 (o-kú-sṳ̂-tû)

  Mandarin: 奧古斯都／奥古斯都 (zh) (Àogǔsīdū), 奥古斯都 (zh) (Àogǔsīdū)

• Coptic: ⲁⲩⲅⲟⲩⲥⲧⲟⲥ (augoustos)
• Danish: Augustus
• Dutch: Augustus (nl)
• Estonian: Augustus
• Finnish: Augustus (fi)
• French: Auguste (fr) m
• German: Augustus (de) m
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• Greek: Αύγουστος (el) m (Ávgoustos)

  Ancient: Σεβαστός m (Sebastós), Αὔγουστος m (Aúgoustos)

• Irish: Ágastas
• Italian: Augusto (it) m
• Japanese: アウグストゥス (Augusutusu), アウグスツス (Augusutsusu)
• Korean: 아우구스투스 (Auguseutuseu)
• Latin: Augustus (la) m
• Luxembourgish: Augustus m
• Marathi: ऑगस्टस (ŏgasṭas)
• Portuguese: Augusto (pt) m
• Romanian: Augustus (ro) m
• Russian: А́вгуст (ru) m (Ávgust)
• Spanish: Augusto (es) m

male given name

• Catalan: August (ca) m
• Danish: August (da)
• Faroese: Aggusteinis m
• Finnish: Aukusti (fi)
• French: Auguste (fr) m
• German: August (de) m, Augustus (de)
• Greenlandic: Augo
• Hungarian: Ágost (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: Augusto (it) m
• Latvian: Augusts m
• Marathi: ऑगस्टस m (ŏgasṭas)
• Norwegian: August (no)
• Polish: August (pl) m
• Portuguese: Augusto (pt) m
• Spanish: Augusto (es) m
• Swedish: August (sv)

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Noun

Augustus (plural Augustusmaande)

1. August

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Latin

The Roman emperor Augustus, b. 23 September 63 BC, d. 19 August 14 AD

Etymology

From augustus (“majestic, venerable”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈɡus.tus/, [äu̯ˈɡʊs̠t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈɡus.tus/, [äu̯ˈɡust̪us]

Proper noun

Augustus m (genitive Augustī); second declension

1. Augustus; a Roman agnomen, or "nickname"
2. Augustus, the Roman emperor

Declension

Second-declension noun

	singular	plural
nominative	Augustus	Augustī
genitive	Augustī	Augustōrum
dative	Augustō	Augustīs
accusative	Augustum	Augustōs
ablative	Augustō	Augustīs
vocative	Auguste	Augustī

Related terms

• Augusta
• augustālis
• augustāneus
• augustēus

• augustēum
• Augustinus
• augustus

See also

• augustus

Descendants

• → Catalan: August
• → Danish: August
  • Greenlandic: Aggu
• → English: Augustus, August (given name)
• → Estonian: August
• → Faroese: August
• → Finnish: Aukusti
• → French: Auguste
• → German: August
• → Gothic: 𐌰𐌲𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (agustus)

• → Italian: Augusto
• → Latvian: Augusts
• → Norwegian: August
• → Portuguese: Augusto
• → Spanish: Augusto
• → Swedish: August
  • → Finnish: August

References

• “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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Old English

Alternative forms

• Agustus

Etymology

From Latin Augustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.u.ɡus.tus/, [ˈɑ.u.ɣus.tus]

Proper noun

Augustus m

1. the Roman emperor Augustus
2. the month of August

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Augustus”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.