agustus

See also: Agustus

Gothic edit

Romanization edit

agustus

Romanization of 𐌰𐌲𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From augustus via dissimilation of /au̯/ to /a/ before a following syllable containing /u/. Attested from the mid–late 1st century CE onward.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈɡus.tus/, [äˈɡʊs̠t̪ʊs̠]

Adjective edit

agustus (feminine agusta, neuter agustum); first/second-declension adjective (nonstandard)

Alternative form of augustus (“of August”)
- 691, Charte du Roy Clovis III. In: 1706, Michel Felibien, Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint-Denys en France, p. xj:
  Datum quod ficit minsis Agustus dies XII. anno primo rigni nostri, Captunnaco feliciter.
  (Note: ⟨minsis Agustus⟩ = mēnsis Augustus, i.e. the month of August)

Descendants edit

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: agustu
- Romanian: agust, gust
Dalmatian:
- aguast
Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: aostu, austu, agostu
- Italian: agosto
  - → Cimbrian: agosto
  - → Dalmatian: agost, aguast
- Neapolitan: aùsto
  Tarantino: agúste
- Sicilian: agustu, austu
  - → Maltese: Awwissu, Awissu
North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Emilian: agåsst
  - Ligurian: agósto, austu, avusto, agusto
  - Lombard: agost, agust, avost, vost
  - Piedmontese: agust, aost, ost
  - Romagnol: agóst, agăst (Rimini)
- Friulian: Avost
- Ladin: aost
- Romansch: avust, avuost, avost, uost
- Venetian: agosto
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: août
- Old French: aost
  - French: août, aout
    - Guianese Creole: oût
    - Haitian Creole: out
    - Mauritian Creole: out
    - → Iranian Persian: اوت (ut)
    - → South Azerbaijani: اوت (ut)
    - → Tunisian Arabic: اوت (ūt)
  - Norman:
    Cotentin: âot
    Guernsey: août, avout
    Jersey: Août
    Sark: u
  - Picard: aou, iou
  - Walloon: awousse
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: agost
- Gascon: aos
- Occitan: agost, aost, avost, aos
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: agosto
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: agostu
  - Extremaduran: agosto
  - Mirandese: Agosto
- Old Galician-Portuguese: agosto
  - Fala: Agostu
  - Galician: agosto
  - Portuguese: agosto (see there for further descendants)
- Old Spanish: agosto
  - Ladino: ogusto
  - Spanish: agosto (see there for further descendants)
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian:
  - Logudorese: austu
  - Nuorese: agústu
Borrowings:
- → Albanian: gusht
- → Proto-Brythonic:
  - Breton: Eost
  - Cornish: Est
  - Welsh: Awst

References edit

agustus 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)
Faculté des lettres de Rennes. 1891. Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l'ouest, vol. VII. Page 212.
Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “a(u)gustus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 51

^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “augŭstus (mēnsis)”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 925

[1] Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “augŭstus (mēnsis)”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 925

[1]