août

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See also: aout and Août

French[edit]

 août on French Wikipedia

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old French aost, from Vulgar Latin agustus, from Latin augustus. Doublet of auguste.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /u/, /ut/, /a.u/, /a.ut/[1]
    • (file)
    • The final /t/ is now predominantly sounded in France, but mostly silent elsewhere. The disyllabic pronunciations are dated in Europe, but remain common variants in North America.
  • Homophones: aoûts (general), aoûte, aoûtent, aoûtes (forms with /t/), ou, (form /u/), hou, houe, houes, houx (form /u/, but aspirated)

Noun[edit]

août m (plural aoûts)

  1. August

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Guianese Creole: oût
  • Haitian Creole: out
  • Mauritian Creole: out
  • Iranian Persian: اوت (ut)
  • South Azerbaijani: اوت (ut)
  • Tunisian Arabic: اوت (ūt)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ août”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Further reading[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Norman[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French aoust, from Vulgar Latin agustus, from Latin augustus.

Noun[edit]

août m (plural aoûts)

  1. (Guernsey) August