Augustus

From Latin Augustus, from augustus (“majestic, venerable”). Doublet of august.

• enPR: ô-gŭsʹtəs, IPA^(key): /ɔːˈɡʌstəs/, /əˈɡʌstəs/

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• Hyphenation: Au‧gus‧tus

Augustus

1. The Roman emperor Augustus, also called Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (63 B.C.E. – 14 C.E.); heir to Julius Caesar
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 2:1:

     And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.

2. A male given name from Latin, risen in popularity since the 18th century.

• (Emperor Augustus): Octavian, Octavius

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Augustus (plural Augustusmaande)

1. August

• AUG, AUGG, AUGGG

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [au̯ˈɡʊs.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [au̯ˈɡus.t̪us]

From augustus (“majestic, venerable”), originally a word of religious use, which was given as a title to the emperor . The month Sextīlis was renamed after the emperor Caesar Augustus.

Augustus m (genitive Augustī); second declension

1. Augustus; a Roman agnomen, or "nickname"
2. Augustus, the Roman emperor

Second-declension noun.

Augustus (feminine Augusta, neuter Augustum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Augustan (pertaining to the Emperor Augustus)
2. imperial, royal
3. of August, the sixth month of the Roman calendar

   Synonym: Sextīlis

• 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.

Ellipsis of Augustus mēnsis m or mēnsis Augustus m (“Augustan month, month of August”).

Augustus m (genitive Augustī); second declension

1. August, the sixth month of the Roman calendar

• Latin: agustus (see there for further descendants)

Unsorted borrowings

These borrowings are ultimately but perhaps not directly from Latin. They are organized into geographical and language family groups, not by etymology.

• augustus
• Calendarium Romanum on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la

• “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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Agustus

From Latin Augustus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.u.ɡus.tus/, [ˈɑ.u.ɣus.tus]

Augustus m

1. the Roman emperor Augustus
2. the month of August

Strong a-stem:

• Gregorian calendar months: mōnaþedit

  • Ianuarius
  • Februarius
  • Martius
  • Aprēlis
  • Maius
  • Iunius
  • giululing
  • Augustus, Agustus
  • September
  • October
  • November
  • December

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Augustus”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.