august
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɔːˈɡʌst/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɔːˈɡʌst/, /ə-/
Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌst
- Hyphenation: au‧gust
Etymology 1Edit
From French auguste (“noble, stately; august”) or Latin augustus (“majestic, venerable, august; imperial, royal”),[1] from augeō (“to augment, increase; to enlarge, expand, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- (“to enlarge, increase”). Doublet of Augustus.
AdjectiveEdit
august (comparative auguster or more august, superlative augustest or most august)
- Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable.
- an august patron of the arts
- 1796, Gilbert Bishop of Sarum [i.e., Gilbert Burnet], “Article VII. Of the Old Testament.”, in An Exposition of the XXXIX Articles of the Church of England, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 123:
- In the book of Pſalms there are many things ſaid of David, which ſeem capable of a much auguſter ſenſe than can be pretended to be anſwered by any thing that befel himſelf.
- 1837 August 31, William Sollis, A Sermon, Preached in Holsworthy Church on Thursday, August 31, 1837, at the Anniversaries of the Societies for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts. […], Launceston, Cornwall: Penheale-Press, Rev. H. A. Simcoe, →OCLC, page 7:
- [W]e shall not, I think, be able to find language which can convey in few words more fully the idea we should always have impressed on our minds of the august character of our Lord, than the expression, "the word of life."
- 1841, E[lijah] C[oleman] Bridgman, “Governmental Affairs”, in A Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect, Macao: S[amuel] Wells Williams, →OCLC, section second (Imperial Titles), page 558:
- The commands of the august sovereign are the imperial commands, or the phœnix (the incomparable) mandate.
- 1846, Robert Browning, “Luria”, in Bells and Pomegranates, volume VIII (Luria; and A Soul’s Tragedy), London: Edward Moxon, →OCLC; republished in Poems [...] In Two Volumes, volume II, new edition, London: Chapman & Hall, […], 1849, →OCLC, Act IV, page 192:
- —Inconsciously to the augustest end / Thou hast arisen: second not in rank / So much as time, to him who first ordained / That Florence, thou art to destroy, should be— […]
- 1899, Sei Shōnagon, “Makura Zōshi [The Attack of the Dog Okinamaro upon the Cat Miyōbu no Otodo]”, in W[illiam] G[eorge] Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 111:
- The foolish dog […] flew at the cat, who in her fright and consternation took refuge behind the screen of the breakfast-room where his Majesty then was. The Mikado was greatly shocked and agitated. He took the cat into his august bosom, and summoning the chamberlain Tadataka, gave orders that Okinamaro should have a good thrashing and be banished to Dog Island at once.
- 2015 December 5, Alan Smith, “Leicester City back on top as Riyad Mahrez hat-trick downs Swansea City”, in The Guardian[1], London, archived from the original on 29 March 2017:
- For once the story was not about Jamie Vardy, unable to equal Jimmy Dunne's top-flight record of scoring in a dozen consecutive games, but about his august deputy Riyad Mahrez.
- 2016, Liu Cixin, Ken Liu, transl., Death's End, Tor, translation of 死神永生, →ISBN, page 280:
- Countless proposals flooded in, sent by sources as august as the World Academy of Sciences and as humble as elementary schools.
- Of noble birth.
- an august lineage
- 1873, Walter Fitz Patrick, chapter I, in The Great Condé and the Period of the Fronde: A Historical Sketch, volume I, London: T[homas] Cautley Newby, publisher, […], →OCLC, page 7:
- A branch of the house of Lorraine, in comparison with which even the royal race of Capet was mean, the Guises traced back their august lineage through a long line of warrior princes to the Imperial figure of Charlemagne.
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
- auction
- augment (see more related terms)
- August
- Augustine
- Augustinian
TranslationsEdit
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Etymology 2Edit
From August.
VerbEdit
august (third-person singular simple present augusts, present participle augusting, simple past and past participle augusted)
- (obsolete, rare) To make ripe; ripen.
- (obsolete, rare) To bring to realization.
- 1855, Philip James Bailey, The Mystic and Other Poems, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 55:
- By divine science and cœlestial art / He for the cause of the dear nations toiled, / And augusted man's heavenly hopes that so, / […] / he might, by awful rites / […] / Adhæsion with Divinity achieve.
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
august (plural augusts)
- Alternative form of auguste (“kind of clown”)
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “august”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin augustus. Doublet of agost, which was inherited through Vulgar Latin.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
august (feminine augusta, masculine plural augusts or augustos, feminine plural augustes)
- august (venerable, noble)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “august” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
august c
- August (the eighth month of the Gregorian calendar)
See alsoEdit
- (Gregorian calendar months) måned i den gregorianske kalender; januar, februar, marts, april, maj, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, december
Obsolete words: glugmåned, blidemåned, tormåned, fåremåned, ?, ?, ormemåned, høstmåned, fiskemåned, liljemåned, slagtemåned, kristmåned (Category: da:Months)
EstonianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
august (genitive augusti, partitive augustit)
InflectionEdit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | august | augustid |
accusative | augusti | augustid |
genitive | augusti | augustite |
partitive | augustit | augusteid |
illative | augustisse | augustitesse augusteisse |
inessive | augustis | augustites augusteis |
elative | augustist | augustitest augusteist |
allative | augustile | augustitele augusteile |
adessive | augustil | augustitel augusteil |
ablative | augustilt | augustitelt augusteilt |
translative | augustiks | augustiteks augusteiks |
terminative | augustini | augustiteni |
essive | augustina | augustitena |
abessive | augustita | augustiteta |
comitative | augustiga | augustitega |
SynonymsEdit
See alsoEdit
FaroeseEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
august m
- August (month of the Gregorian calendar)
See alsoEdit
InterlinguaEdit
NounEdit
august (plural augustes)
- Alternative form of augusto
North FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
august m
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Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
august (indeclinable)
- August (eighth month of the year)
See alsoEdit
- (Gregorian calendar months) månad i den gregorianske kalenderen; januar, februar, mars, april, mai, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, desember (Category: no:Months)
ReferencesEdit
- “august” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
august m (indeclinable)
- August (eighth month)
ReferencesEdit
- “august” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
RomanianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Latin (mensis) augustus. Cf. also the inherited doublet agust and gust.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
august m (uncountable)
SynonymsEdit
See alsoEdit
- (Gregorian calendar months) lună a calendarului gregorian; ianuarie, februarie, martie, aprilie, mai, iunie, iulie, august, septembrie, octombrie, noiembrie, decembrie (Category: ro:Months)
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
august m or n (feminine singular augustă, masculine plural auguști, feminine and neuter plural auguste)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | august | augustă | auguști | auguste | ||
definite | augustul | augusta | auguștii | augustele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | august | auguste | auguști | auguste | ||
definite | augustului | augustei | auguștilor | augustelor |
SynonymsEdit
Serbo-CroatianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- avgust (Serbia)
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
august m (Cyrillic spelling аугуст)
See alsoEdit
- (Gregorian calendar months) m(j)eseci gregorijanskog kalendara; januar/siječanj, februar/veljača, mart/ožujak, april/travanj, maj/svibanj, jun/juni/lipanj, jul/juli/srpanj, avgust/august/kolovoz, septembar/rujan, oktobar/listopad, novembar/studeni, decembar/prosinac (Category: sh:Gregorian calendar months)
SlovakEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
august m inan (genitive singular augusta, nominative plural augusty, genitive plural augustov, declension pattern of dub)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
- (Gregorian calendar months) mesiac gregoriánskeho kalendára; január, február, marec, apríl, máj, jún, júl, august, september, október, november, december (Category: sk:Months)
Further readingEdit
- august in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
SundaneseEdit
NounEdit
august