agustus

agustus

1. romanization of 𐌰𐌲𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃

From augustus via dissimilation of /au̯/ to /a/ before a following syllable containing /u/. Attested from the mid–late 1st century CE onward.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈɡʊs.tʊs]

agustus (feminine agusta, neuter agustum); first/second-declension adjective (nonstandard)

1. alternative form of augustus (“of August”)
   • 691, Charte du Roy Clovis III. In: 1706, Michel Felibien, Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint-Denys en France, p. xj:

     Datum quod ficit minsis Agustus dies XII. anno primo rigni nostri, Captunnaco feliciter.

     (Note: ⟨minsis Agustus⟩ = mēnsis Augustus, i.e. the month of August)

• "agustus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Faculté des lettres de Rennes. 1891. Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l'ouest, vol. VII. Page 212.
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “a(u)gustus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 51