augustus
See also: Augustus
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
augustus m (uncountable)
- August (month)
DescendantsEdit
See alsoEdit
- (Gregorian calendar months) maanden van de gregoriaanse kalender; januari, februari, maart, april, mei, juni, juli, augustus, september, oktober, november, december (Category: nl:Months)
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From augeō (“increase, grow, honor”). The month sextīlis was renamed after the emperor Augustus Caesar
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /au̯ˈɡus.tus/, [äu̯ˈɡʊs̠t̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /au̯ˈɡus.tus/, [ɑu̯ˈɡust̪us]
AdjectiveEdit
augustus (feminine augusta, neuter augustum, comparative augustior, superlative augustissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- august, majestic, venerable
- of August, the sixth month of the Roman calendar
- Augustan (pertaining to the Emperor Augustus)
- imperial, royal
Usage notesEdit
- 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.
DeclensionEdit
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 |
SynonymsEdit
- (of the month of August): sextīlis
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Vulgar Latin: *agustus
- Eastern Romance
- Franco-Provençal: août
- Gallo-Italic
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Old French: aost
- Old Occitan: agost
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Sardinian: agústu, austu
- Venetian: agosto
- West Iberian
- → Albanian: gusht
- → Old English: Agustus
- → Ancient Greek: Αὔγουστος (Aúgoustos)
- → Brythonic: [Term?]
- 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
- 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 alsoEdit
- Augustus
- Roman calendar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
ReferencesEdit
- augustus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
- augustus in Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
- augustus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- augustus in Gaffiot, Félix, Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, 1934
- augustus in The Perseus Project, Perseus Encyclopedia[1], 1999
- augustus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor, Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898
- augustus in William Smith, editor, A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray, 1848
- augustus in William Smith et al., editor, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin, 1890
LatvianEdit
NounEdit
augustus m
- accusative plural form of augusts
LimburgishEdit
NounEdit
augustus
- August (month)
West FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
augustus c (plural augustussen)
- August
- Synonym: rispmoanne
Further readingEdit
- “augustus”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal[2] (in Dutch), 2011