augustus

See also: Augustus

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Augustus. Doublet of oogst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑu̯ˈɣʏs.tʏs/, /ɑu̯ˈɣʏs.təs/

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• Hyphenation: au‧gus‧tus

Noun

augustus m (uncountable)

1. August (month)

Descendants

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

See also

• (Gregorian calendar months) maanden van de gregoriaanse kalender; januari, februari, maart, april, mei, juni, juli, augustus, september, oktober, november, december ^{(Category: nl:Months)}

Latin

Etymology

From *augus, auguris (“augur”) +‎ -tus, before the first element later changed into augur, auguris with levelling of the -r-. The month sextīlis was renamed after the emperor Augustus Caesar.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

• 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

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

• (of the month of August): sextīlis

Related terms

• Augusta
• augustālis
• augustāneus
• augustēus
• augustēum
• Augustus

Descendants

• 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.

• Africa
  • Northern and Horn
    • Amharic: ኦገስት (ʾogäst)
    • Kabyle: ɣuct
  • Subsaharan
    • Ewe: August
    • Kongo: auti
    • Lingala: augústo
    • Malagasy: Aogositra
    • Tumbuka: ogasiti
    • Zulu: u-Agasti
• Americas
  • Greenlandic: aggusti
  • Inuktitut: ᐋᒡᒋᓯ (aaccisi)
• Asia and Oceania
  • Central and Western Asia
    • Arabic: أَغُسْطُسْ‎ (ʔaḡusṭus)
    • Crimean Tatar: avgustos
    • Georgian: აგვისტო (agvisṭo)
      • → Bats: აგვისტო̂ (agvisṭô)
      • → Mingrelian: არგუსო (arguso)
      • → Svan: აგუ̂ისტო (agûisṭo)
    • Turkish: ağustos
    • Uyghur: ئاۋغۇست‎ (awghust)
    • Zazaki: ağustos
  • South Asia
    • Assamese: আগষ্ট (agosto)
    • Bengali: অগাস্ট (ogasṭ)
    • Brahui: Agast
    • Dhivehi: އޮގަސްޓު‎ (ogasṭu)
    • Kannada: ಆಗಸ್ಟ್ (āgasṭ)
    • Marathi: ऑगस्ट (ŏgasṭa)
    • Oriya: ଅଗଷ୍ଟ (ôgôṣṭô)
    • Pashto: اګست‎ (ágəst)
    • Sinhalese: අගෝස්තු (agōstu)
    • Tamil: ஆகஸ்டு (ākasṭu)
    • Telugu: ఆగస్టు (āgasṭu)
  • Southeast Asia and Oceania
    • Balinese: Agustus
    • Banjarese: Agustus
    • Fijian: Okosita
    • Gilbertese: Aokati
    • Gorontalo: Agustus
    • Javanese: Agustus
    • Marshallese: O̧kwōj
    • Minangkabau: Agustus
    • Samoan: aokuso
    • Sundanese: august
    • Tahitian: ʻatete
• Europe
  • → Ancient Greek: Αὔγουστος (Aúgoustos)
    • Byzantine Greek: Αὔγουστος (Aúgoustos)
      • Greek: Αύγουστος (Ávgoustos) (see there for further descendants)
      • Pontic Greek: Αύγουστος (Ávgoustos), Άγουστος (Ágoustos), Αύγοστος (Ávgostos), Άγοστος (Ágostos)
      • → Old East Slavic: авъгустъ (avŭgustŭ)
        • Russian: август (avgust) (see there for further descendants)
    • → Aghwan: 𐔰𐕡𐔲𐕒𐕡𐕚𐕜𐕒𐕚 (awgusṭos)
    • → Coptic: ⲁⲩⲅⲟⲩⲥⲧⲟⲥ (augoustos)
    • → Old Armenian: օգոստոս (ōgostos), Օգոստոս (Ōgostos)
  • Basque: abuztu
  • Hungarian: augusztus
  • Baltic
    • Latvian: augusts
    • Livonian: ougust
    • Old Prussian: August
  • Germanic
    • Alemannic German: Ougschte, Ouguscht
    • Bavarian: August
    • Central Franconian: Aujuss
    • Cimbrian: agòsten
    • Danish: august
    • Dutch: augustus
      • Afrikaans: Augustus
      • Negerhollands: august
      • →? Caribbean Hindustani: agast
      • → Caribbean Javanese: agustus
      • → Indonesian: Agustus
      • → Papiamentu: ougùstùs
      • → Sranan Tongo: augustus
      • → Trió: ahkëtë
    • Faroese: august
    • German: August
      • → Estonian: august
      • → Luxembourgish: August
    • German Low German: August
    • Icelandic: ágúst
    • Limburgish: egóstös
    • Middle Dutch: ogest
      • Dutch: oogst
      • Limburgish: ougs
    • North Frisian: august
    • Mòcheno: agst
    • Norwegian: august
    • Pennsylvania German: Auguscht
    • Saterland Frisian: August
    • Swedish: augusti
    • West Flemish: ogustus
    • West Frisian: augustus
    • Yiddish: אויגוסט‎ (oygust)
  • Romance
    • Asturian: augustu
    • Catalan: august
    • French: auguste
    • Galician: augusto
    • Italian: augusto
    • Portuguese: augusto
    • Romanian: august
    • Spanish: augusto
  • Slavic
    • Bulgarian: а́вгуст (ávgust)
    • Lower Sorbian: awgust
    • Macedonian: август (avgust)
    • Rusyn: авґуст (avgust)
    • Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: август, аугуст

      Latin script: avgust, august

    • Slovak: august
    • Slovene: avgúst
    • Upper Sorbian: awgust

See also

• Augustus
• Roman calendar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “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 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

Noun

augustus m

1. accusative plural form of augusts

Limburgish

Alternative forms

• Augustus, augustes (alternative spellings)
• auguustus (Valkenburg)
• Juss (Krefeld)
• Augusst, Ogusst (Eupen)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑu̯ˈɣʏs.tʏs/, /ɑu̯ˈɣʏs.təs/

  IPA^(key): (Maastrichtian) [ɔʋˈɣʏs.təs]

• Hyphenation: au‧gus‧tus
• Rhymes: -ʏstʏs, -ʏstəs

Noun

augustus

1. August (month)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Latin augustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔu̯ˈɡøstəs/

Noun

augustus c (plural augustussen)

1. August

   Synonym: rispmoanne

Further reading

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