Augustus

See also: augustus

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Augustus

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin Augustus, from augustus (“majestic, venerable”). Doublet of august.

Pronunciation

enPR: ô-gŭsʹtəs, IPA^(key): /ɔːˈɡʌstəs/, /əˈɡʌstəs/
Hyphenation: Au‧gus‧tus

Proper noun

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

(Emperor Augustus): Octavian, Octavius

Derived terms

Augustan
female given name: Augusta
male given names: August, Augustine, pet form: Gus
Fort Augustus
Pax Augusta

Translations

Roman emperor

Alemannic German: Augustus m
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܓ݂ܘܼܣܛܘܿܣ (āḡusṭōs)
Armenian: Օգոստոս (Ōgostos)
Bengali: ঔগস্টস m (ōugosṭoś)
Catalan: August (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 奧古斯都／奥古斯都 (ou³ gu² si¹ dou¹)

Hakka: 奧古斯都／奥古斯都 (o-kú-sṳ̂-tû)

Mandarin: 奧古斯都／奥古斯都 (zh) (Àogǔsīdū)
Coptic: ⲁⲩⲅⲟⲩⲥⲧⲟⲥ (augoustos)
Danish: Augustus
Dutch: Augustus (nl)
Estonian: Augustus
Finnish: Augustus (fi)
French: Auguste (fr) m
German: Augustus (de) m
Greek: Αύγουστος (el) m (Ávgoustos)
Ancient: Σεβαστός m (Sebastós), Αὔγουστος m (Aúgoustos)
Irish: Ágastas
Italian: Augusto (it) m
Japanese: アウグストゥス (Augusutusu), アウグスツス (Augusutsusu)
Korean: 아우구스투스 (Auguseutuseu)
Latin: Augustus (la) m
Luxembourgish: Augustus m
Marathi: ऑगस्टस (ŏgasṭas)
Portuguese: Augusto (pt) m
Romanian: Augustus (ro) m
Russian: А́вгуст (ru) m (Ávgust)
Spanish: Augusto (es) m

male given name

Catalan: August (ca) m
Danish: August (da)
Faroese: Aggusteinis m
Finnish: Aukusti (fi)
French: Auguste (fr) m
German: August (de) m, Augustus (de)
Greenlandic: Augo
Hungarian: Ágost (hu)
Italian: Augusto (it) m
Latvian: Augusts m
Marathi: ऑगस्टस m (ŏgasṭas)
Norwegian: August (no)
Polish: August (pl) m
Portuguese: Augusto (pt) m
Spanish: Augusto (es) m
Swedish: August (sv)

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

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Noun

Augustus (plural Augustusmaande)

August

Latin

Alternative forms

AUG, AUGG, AUGGG

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈɡus.tus/, [äu̯ˈɡʊs̠t̪ʊs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈɡus.tus/, [äu̯ˈɡust̪us]

Etymology 1

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

Augustus (imperator)

Wikipedia ^la

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

Augustus m (genitive Augustī); second declension

Augustus; a Roman agnomen, or "nickname"
Augustus, the Roman emperor

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Augustus	Augustī
genitive	Augustī	Augustōrum
dative	Augustō	Augustīs
accusative	Augustum	Augustōs
ablative	Augustō	Augustīs
vocative	Auguste	Augustī

Related terms

Descendants

→ 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

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

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

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

Augustus

Wikipedia ^la

Ellipsis of Augustus mēnsis m or mēnsis Augustus m (“Augustan month, month of August”).

Proper noun

Augustus m (genitive Augustī); second declension

August, the sixth month of the Roman calendar

Descendants

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
- Northern and Horn
  - Amharic: ኦገስት (ʾogäst)
  - Kabyle: ɣuct
- Subsaharan
  - Ewe: August
  - Kongo: auti
  - Lingala: augústo
  - Malagasy: Aogositra
  - Tumbuka: ogasiti
  - Zulu: u-Agasti
Americas
- Greenlandic: aggusti
- Inuktitut: ᐋᒡᒋᓯ (aaccisi)
Asia and Oceania
- Central and Western Asia
  - Arabic: أَغُسْطُسْ (ʔaḡusṭus)
  - Crimean Tatar: avgustos
  - Georgian: აგვისტო (agvisṭo)
    - → Bats: აგვისტო̂ (agvisṭô)
    - → Mingrelian: არგუსო (arguso)
    - → Svan: აგუ̂ისტო (agûisṭo)
  - Turkish: ağustos
  - Uyghur: ئاۋغۇست (awghust)
  - Zazaki: ağustos
- South Asia
  - Assamese: আগষ্ট (agosto)
  - Bengali: অগাস্ট (ogasṭ)
  - Brahui: Agast
  - Dhivehi: އޮގަސްޓު (ogasṭu)
  - Kannada: ಆಗಸ್ಟ್ (āgasṭ)
  - Marathi: ऑगस्ट (ŏgasṭa)
  - Odia: ଅଗଷ୍ଟ (agashṭa)
  - Pashto: اګست (ágəst)
  - Sinhalese: අගෝස්තු (agōstu)
  - Tamil: ஆகஸ்டு (ākasṭu)
  - Telugu: ఆగస్టు (āgasṭu)
- Southeast Asia and Oceania
  - Balinese: Agustus
  - Banjarese: Agustus
  - Fijian: Okosita
  - Gilbertese: Aokati
  - Gorontalo: Agustus
  - Javanese: Agustus
  - Marshallese: O̧kwōj
  - Minangkabau: Agustus
  - Samoan: aokuso
  - Sundanese: august
  - Tahitian: ʻatete
Europe
- → Ancient Greek: Αὔγουστος (Aúgoustos)
  - Byzantine Greek: Αὔγουστος (Aúgoustos)
    - Greek: Αύγουστος (Ávgoustos) (see there for further descendants)
    - Pontic Greek: Αύγουστος (Ávgoustos), Άγουστος (Ágoustos), Αύγοστος (Ávgostos), Άγοστος (Ágostos)
    - → Old East Slavic: авъгустъ (avŭgustŭ)
      - Russian: август (avgust) (see there for further descendants)
  - → Aghwan: 𐔰𐕡𐔲𐕒𐕡𐕚𐕜𐕒𐕚 (awgusṭos)
  - → Coptic: ⲁⲩⲅⲟⲩⲥⲧⲟⲥ (augoustos)
  - → Old Armenian: օգոստոս (ōgostos), Օգոստոս (Ōgostos)
- Basque: abuztu
- Hungarian: augusztus
- Baltic
  - Latvian: augusts
  - Livonian: ougust
  - Old Prussian: August
- Germanic
  - Bavarian: August
  - Central Franconian: Aujuss
  - Cimbrian: agòsten
  - Danish: august
  - Dutch: augustus
    - Afrikaans: Augustus
    - Negerhollands: august
    - →? Caribbean Hindustani: agast
    - → Caribbean Javanese: agustus
    - → Indonesian: Agustus
    - → Papiamentu: ougùstùs
    - → Sranan Tongo: augustus
    - → Trió: ahkëtë
  - Faroese: august
  - German: August
    - → Estonian: august
    - → Hunsrik: August
    - → Kashubian: agùst
    - → Lower Sorbian: awgust
    - → Luxembourgish: August
    - → Slovincian: aughúst
    - → Upper Sorbian: awgust
  - German Low German: August
  - Icelandic: ágúst
  - Limburgish: egóstös
  - Middle Dutch: ogest
    - Dutch: oogst
    - Limburgish: ougs
  - North Frisian: august
  - Mòcheno: agst
  - Norwegian: august
  - Old High German: ougusto, agusto
    - Middle High German: ougeste, ougste, oust, ouwest, owest
      - Alemannic German: Ougschte, Ouguscht
      - Central Franconian:
        Hunsrik: Aagust
  - Pennsylvania German: Auguscht
  - Saterland Frisian: August
  - Swedish: augusti
  - West Flemish: ogustus
  - West Frisian: augustus
  - Yiddish: אויגוסט (oygust)
- Romance
  - Asturian: augustu
  - Catalan: august
  - French: auguste
  - Galician: augusto
  - Italian: augusto
  - Portuguese: augusto
  - Romanian: august
  - Spanish: augusto
- Slavic
  - Bulgarian: а́вгуст (ávgust)
  - Lower Sorbian: awgust
  - Macedonian: август (avgust)
  - Carpathian Rusyn: авґуст (avgust)
  - Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: август, аугуст
    
    Latin script: avgust, august
  - Slovak: august
  - Slovene: avgúst
  - Upper Sorbian: awgust

References

“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

Alternative forms

Agustus

Etymology

From Latin Augustus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.u.ɡus.tus/, [ˈɑ.u.ɣus.tus]

Proper noun

Augustus m

the Roman emperor Augustus
the month of August

Declension

Declension of Augustus (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	Augustus	—
accusative	Augustus	—
genitive	Augustuses	—
dative	Augustuse	—

References

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Augustus”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.