austo
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Latvian
[edit]Participle
[edit]austo
- inflection of austais:
Neapolitan
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin augustus (“month of August”), from the agnomen Augustus (“venerable”) of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, possibly from either Old Latin *augos, increase, from Proto-Indo-European base *aug- (“to increase”); or Latin avis (“bird”), referring to divination by observing bird flights, singing, feeding or entrails, from Proto-Indo-European *awi-, bird; + Latin garrire (“to chatter”), from Proto-Indo-European base *gar-/*ger-, to cry, of imitative origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]austo n
Derived terms
[edit]- (austegno)
References
[edit]- Emmanuele Rocco, Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano, Naples, 1882