augustus
See also: Augustus
Contents
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
augustus m (uncountable)
- August (month)
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
AdjectiveEdit
augustus (feminine augusta, neuter augustum); first/second declension
- 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.
InflectionEdit
| 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 | augustae | augustō | augustīs | augustīs | augustīs | |
| Accusative | augustum | augustam | augustum | augustōs | augustās | augusta | |
| Ablative | augustō | augustā | augustō | augustīs | augustīs | augustīs | |
| Vocative | auguste | augusta | augustum | augustī | augustae | augusta | |
SynonymsEdit
- (of the month of August): sextīlis
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Abaza: август (āvgwst) (borrowed)
- Afrikaans: Augustus (borrowed)
- Albanian: gusht
- Arabic: أَغُسْطُسْ (ʾaḡusṭus) (borrowed)
- Aragonese: agosto
- Old Armenian: օգոստոս (ōgostos) (borrowed)
- Armenian: օգոստոս (ōgostos)
- Aromanian: avgustu, agustu
- Asturian: agostu, augustu (borrowed)
- Azerbaijani: avqust (borrowed)
- Basque: abuztu (borrowed)
- Breton: Eost (borrowed)
- Bulgarian: а́вгуст (ávgust) (borrowed)
- Burmese: ဩဂုတ် (au:gut) (borrowed)
- Catalan: august (borrowed)
- Cimbrian: agòsten (borrowed)
- Corsican: aostu, austu, agostu
- Crimean Tatar: avgustos (borrowed)
- Dalmatian: aguast, agost
- Danish: august
- Dutch: augustus, oogst (borrowed)
- Emilian: agåsst
- English: August (borrowed)
- Esperanto: aŭgusto (borrowed)
- Estonian: august (borrowed)
- Extremaduran: agohto
- Faroese: august (borrowed)
- Franco-Provençal: oût
- Old French: aoust
- French: auguste (borrowed)
- Friulian: Avost
- Galician: augusto (borrowed)
- Georgian: აგვისტო (agvisṭo) (borrowed)
- German: August (borrowed)
- Greek: Αύγουστος (Ávgoustos) (borrowed)
- Hungarian: augusztus (borrowed)
- Icelandic: ágúst (borrowed)
- Ido: agosto (borrowed)
- Indonesian: Agustus (borrowed)
- Interlingua: augusto (borrowed)
- Italian: agosto
- → Cimbrian: agosto
- → Italian: augusto
- Javanese: agustus (borrowed)
- Ladin: aost
- Latvian: augusts (borrowed)
- Ligurian: agósto
- Limburgish: Augustus (borrowed)
- Lombard: agost, agust
- Macedonian: август (avgust) (borrowed)
- Marshallese: O̧kwōj (borrowed)
- Mirandese: agosto
- Mozarabic: [script needed] (agóch), [script needed] (agóxt), [script needed] (agóxto)
- Neapolitan: aùsto
- Norwegian: august (borrowed)
- Old English: Agustus (borrowed)
- Old Portuguese: agosto
- Old Occitan: agost
- Piedmontese: agust
- Portuguese: augusto (borrowed)
- Romanian: august (borrowed), agust, gust, gustar
- Romansch: avust, avuost, avost, uost
- Russian: а́вгуст (ávgust) (borrowed)
- Sardinian: agústu, austu
- Serbo-Croatian: август/avgust, аугуст/august (borrowed)
- Sicilian: austu
- Slovak: august (borrowed)
- Slovene: avgúst (borrowed)
- Old Spanish: agosto
- Spanish: augusto (borrowed)
- Swedish: augusti (borrowed)
- Turkish: ağustos (borrowed)
- Venetian: agosto
- Welsh: Awst
- West Frisian: augustus (borrowed)
- Yiddish: אויגוסט (oygust) (borrowed)
See alsoEdit
- Augustus
Roman calendar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
ReferencesEdit
- 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, 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