august

See also: August

English

WOTD – 1 August 2018

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From French auguste (“noble, stately; august”) or Latin augustus (“majestic, venerable, august; imperial, royal”),[1] from augeō (“to augment, increase; to enlarge, expand, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- (“to enlarge, increase”).

Adjective

august (comparative auguster or more august, superlative augustest or most august)

  1. Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable.
    an august patron of the arts
  2. Of noble birth.
    an august lineage
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From August.

Verb

august (third-person singular simple present augusts, present participle augusting, simple past and past participle augusted)

  1. To make ripe.
  2. To bring to realisation.

References

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus. Doublet of agost, which was inherited through Vulgar Latin.

Pronunciation

Adjective

august (feminine augusta, masculine plural augusts or augustos, feminine plural augustes)

  1. august (venerable, noble)

Derived terms

  • augustament

Further reading

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /avɡɔst/, [ɑwˈɡ̊ɔsd̥]

Noun

august c

  1. August (the eighth month of the Gregorian calendar)

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Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from German August.

Noun

august (genitive augusti, partitive augustit)

  1. August

Inflection

Synonyms

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Faroese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august m

  1. August (month of the Gregorian calendar)

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Interlingua

Noun

august (plural augustes)

  1. August

Interlingue

Noun

august

  1. August

North Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august m

  1. (Föhr-Amrum) August

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august (indeclinable)

  1. August (eighth month of the year)

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References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august m (indeclinable)

  1. August (eighth month)

References

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin (mensis) augustus. Cf. also the inherited doublet agust, gust.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaw.ɡust/

Noun

august m (uncountable)

  1. August
Synonyms

See also

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French auguste.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /awˈɡust/

Adjective

august m, n (feminine singular augustă, masculine plural auguști, feminine and neuter plural auguste)

  1. august, majestic, venerable
Declension
Synonyms
  • slăvit, preamărit

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august m (Cyrillic spelling аугуст)

  1. (Bosnia) August

Synonyms

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Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈau̯ɡust/

Noun

august m (genitive singular augusta, nominative plural augusty, genitive plural augustov, declension pattern of dub)

  1. August

Declension

Derived terms

  • augustový

See also

Further reading

  • august in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Sundanese

Noun

august

  1. August
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