août

See also: aout and Août

French

Alternative forms

  • aout (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French aost, from Vulgar Latin agustus, from Latin augustus. Doublet of auguste.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /u/, /ut/, /a.u/, /a.ut/[1]
    • Audio (Paris):(file)
    • The final /t/ is now predominantly sounded in France, but mostly silent elsewhere. The disyllabic pronunciations are dated in Europe, but remain common variants in North America.
  • Homophones: aoûts (general), aoûte, aoûtent, aoûtes (forms with /t/), ou, où (form /u/), hou, houe, houes, houx (form /u/, but aspirated)

Noun

août m (plural aoûts)

  1. August

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Guianese Creole: oût
  • Haitian Creole: out
  • Mauritian Creole: out
  • → Iranian Persian: اوت (ut)
  • → South Azerbaijani: اوت (ut)
  • → Tunisian Arabic: اوت (ūt)

See also

Gregorian calendar months: mois du calendrier grégorienedit

References

  1. ^ “août”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Further reading

Anagrams

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French aoust, from Vulgar Latin agustus, from Latin augustus.

Noun

août m (plural aoûts)

  1. (Guernsey) August
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