augites

augites

1. plural of augite

Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐγῑ́της (augī́tēs, “a precious stone”), probably from αὖγος (aûgos, “morning light, dawn”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [au̯ˈɡiː.teːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [au̯ˈd͡ʒiː.t̪es]

augītēs m (genitive augītae); first declension

1. A kind of precious stone, often thought to be turquoise

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs).

• Catalan: augita
• Galician: auxita
• Portuguese: augite
• Spanish: augita

• “augites”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• augites in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “augites”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers