Augustus
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin Augustus, from augustus (“majestic, venerable”). Doublet of august.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Augustus
- 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.
- A male given name from Latin, risen in popularity since the 18th century.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- Augustan
- female given name: Augusta
- male given names: August, Augustine, pet form: Gus
- Fort Augustus
- Pax Augusta
Translations
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Noun
[edit]Augustus (plural Augustusmaande)
See also
[edit](Gregorian calendar months) Januarie, Februarie, Maart, April, Mei, Junie, Julie, Augustus, September, Oktober, November, Desember (Category: af:Months)
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /au̯ˈɡus.tus/, [äu̯ˈɡʊs̠t̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /au̯ˈɡus.tus/, [äu̯ˈɡust̪us]
Etymology 1
[edit]From augustus (“majestic, venerable”), originally a word of religious use, which was given as a title to the emperor Augustus. The month Sextīlis was renamed after the emperor Caesar Augustus.
Proper noun
[edit]Augustus m (genitive Augustī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | Augustus | Augustī |
Genitive | Augustī | Augustōrum |
Dative | Augustō | Augustīs |
Accusative | Augustum | Augustōs |
Ablative | Augustō | Augustīs |
Vocative | Auguste | Augustī |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: August
- → Danish: August
- Greenlandic: Aggu
- → English: Augustus, August (given name)
- → Estonian: August
- → Faroese: August
- → Finnish: Aukusti
- → French: Auguste
- → German: August
- → Gothic: 𐌰𐌲𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (agustus)
- → Italian: Augusto
- → Latvian: Augusts
- → Norwegian: August
- → Portuguese: Augusto
- → Spanish: Augusto
- → Swedish: August
- → Finnish: August
Adjective
[edit]Augustus (feminine Augusta, neuter Augustum); first/second-declension adjective
- Augustan (pertaining to the Emperor Augustus)
- imperial, royal
- of August, the sixth month of the Roman calendar
- Synonym: Sextīlis
Usage notes
[edit]- 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.
Etymology 2
[edit]Ellipsis of Augustus mēnsis m or ellipsis of mēnsis Augustus m (“Augustan month, month of August”).
Proper noun
[edit]Augustus m (genitive Augustī); second declension
- August, the sixth month of the Roman calendar
Descendants
[edit]- 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.
- Africa
- Americas
- Asia and Oceania
- Central and Western Asia
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia and Oceania
- Europe
- → Ancient Greek: Αὔγουστος (Aúgoustos)
- Basque: abuztu
- Hungarian: augusztus
- Baltic
- Germanic
- Alemannic German: Ougschte, Ouguscht
- Bavarian: August
- Central Franconian: Aujuss
- Cimbrian: agòsten
- Danish: august
- Dutch: augustus
- Faroese: august
- German: August
- German Low German: August
- Icelandic: ágúst
- Limburgish: egóstös
- Middle Dutch: ogest
- North Frisian: august
- Mòcheno: agst
- Norwegian: august
- Pennsylvania German: Auguscht
- Saterland Frisian: August
- Swedish: augusti
- West Flemish: ogustus
- West Frisian: augustus
- Yiddish: אויגוסט (oygust)
- Romance
- Slavic
See also
[edit]- augustus
Roman calendar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
[edit]- “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.
Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Augustus m
Declension
[edit]Case | Singular | Plural |
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nominative | Augustus | — |
accusative | Augustus | — |
genitive | Augustuses | — |
dative | Augustuse | — |
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Augustus”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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