austo
Latvian
editParticiple
editausto
Neapolitan
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editausto n
Derived terms
edit- (austegno)
References
edit- Emmanuele Rocco, Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano, Naples, 1882