augustus
Dutch Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from Latin Augustus. Doublet of oogst.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
augustus m (uncountable)
- August (month)
Descendants Edit
- Afrikaans: Augustus
- Negerhollands: august
- →? Caribbean Hindustani: agast
- → Caribbean Javanese: agustus
- → Indonesian: Agustus
- → Papiamentu: ougùstùs
- → Sranan Tongo: augustus
- → Trió: ahkëtë
See also Edit
Latin Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-Italic *augostos (“amplified, increased, augmented, strengthened”), from *augos (“an increase, augmentation”) + *-tos, an old neuter s-stem formed to the root of Latin augeō (“I increase, enlarge”). Its descendant appears in Classical Latin as augur, auguris with shifted gender/sense ("augur") and levelling of the -r-.[1][2] The month sextīlis was renamed after the emperor Caesar Augustus.
Pronunciation Edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /au̯ˈɡus.tus/, [äu̯ˈɡʊs̠t̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /au̯ˈɡus.tus/, [äu̯ˈɡust̪us]
Adjective Edit
augustus (feminine augusta, neuter augustum, comparative augustior, superlative augustissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- august, solemn, majestic, venerable
- of August, the sixth month of the Roman calendar
- Augustan (pertaining to the Emperor Augustus)
- imperial, royal
Usage notes Edit
- 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 Edit
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 Edit
- (of the month of August): sextīlis
Related terms Edit
Descendants Edit
- 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
- Americas
- Asia and Oceania
- Central and Western Asia
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia and Oceania
- Europe
- → Ancient Greek: Αὔγουστος (Aúgoustos)
- Basque: abuztu
- Hungarian: augusztus
- Baltic
- Germanic
- Alemannic German: Ougschte, Ouguscht
- Bavarian: August
- Central Franconian: Aujuss
- Cimbrian: agòsten
- Danish: august
- Dutch: augustus
- Faroese: august
- German: August
- German Low German: August
- Icelandic: ágúst
- Limburgish: egóstös
- Middle Dutch: ogest
- 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
- Slavic
See also Edit
- Augustus
- Roman calendar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References Edit
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “augeō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 61–62
- ^ Moreno Morani (1984), “Augurium augur augustus: una questione di metodo”, in Glotta (in Italian), volume 62, →JSTOR, pages 65–71
Further reading Edit
- “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 Edit
Noun Edit
augustus m
Limburgish Edit
Alternative forms Edit
- Augustus, augustes (alternative spellings)
- auguustus (Valkenburg)
- Juss (Krefeld)
- Augusst, Ogusst (Eupen)
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from Latin augustus (“month of August”). Doublet of ougs.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
augustus
- August (month)
West Frisian Edit
Etymology Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
augustus c (plural augustussen)
- August
- Synonym: rispmoanne
Further reading Edit
- “augustus”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011