augustus

Borrowed from Latin Augustus. Doublet of oogst.

• IPA^(key): /ɑu̯ˈɣʏs.tʏs/, /ɑu̯ˈɣʏs.təs/

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• Hyphenation: au‧gus‧tus

augustus m (plural augustussen)

1. August (month)

   Synonym: (archaic) oogstmaand

• Afrikaans: Augustus
• Negerhollands: august
• →? Caribbean Hindustani: agast
• → Caribbean Javanese: agustus
• → Indonesian: Agustus
• → Papiamentu: ougùstùs
• → Sranan Tongo: augustus
• → Trió: ahkëtë

From Proto-Italic *augostos (“amplified, increased, augmented, strengthened”), from *augos (“an increase, augmentation”) +‎ *-tos, an old neuter s-stem formed to the root of Latin augeō (“I increase, enlarge”). Its descendant appears in Classical Latin as augur, auguris with shifted gender/sense ("augur") and levelling of the -r-.^[1][2]

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

augustus (feminine augusta, neuter augustum, comparative augustior, superlative augustissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. august, solemn, majestic, venerable
2. alternative letter-case form of Augustus

• Originally a word of religious use, but given as a title to the emperor Augustus.

First/second-declension adjective.

• Augustus

• “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 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)
• augustus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “augustus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “augustus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “augustus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “augustus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

augustus m

1. accusative plural of augusts

• Augustus, augustes (alternative spellings)
• auguustus (Valkenburg)
• Juss (Krefeld)
• Augusst, Ogusst (Eupen)

Borrowed from Latin augustus (“month of August”). Doublet of ougs.

• IPA^(key): /ɑu̯ˈɣʏs.tʏs/, /ɑu̯ˈɣʏs.təs/

  IPA^(key): (Maastrichtian) [ɔʋˈɣʏs.təs]

• Hyphenation: au‧gus‧tus
• Rhymes: -ʏstʏs, -ʏstəs

augustus

1. August (month)

From Latin augustus.

• IPA^(key): /ɔu̯ˈɡøstəs/

augustus c (plural augustussen)

1. August

   Synonym: rispmoanne

• “augustus”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011