austo

Latvian

Participle

austo

1. inflection of austais:
   1. vocative/accusative/instrumental singular masculine/feminine
   2. genitive plural masculine/feminine

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• agusto

Etymology

From Latin augustus (“month of August”), from the agnomen Augustus (“venerable”) of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, possibly from either Old Latin *augos, increase, from Proto-Indo-European base *aug- (“to increase”); or Latin avis (“bird”), referring to divination by observing bird flights, singing, feeding or entrails, from Proto-Indo-European *awi-, bird; + Latin garrire (“to chatter”), from Proto-Indo-European base *gar-/*ger-, to cry, of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈus.tə/
• Rhymes: -ustə

Noun

austo n

1. August

Derived terms

• (austegno)

References

• Emmanuele Rocco, Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano, Naples, 1882