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English
Etymology 1
Early Middle English August(us) , re-Latinized from Old English Agustus , from Late Latin Agustus , 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-Italic *augos , from Proto-Indo-European base *h₂ewg- ( “ to increase ” ) ; or Latin avis ( “ bird ” ) , referring to divination by observing bird flights, singing, feeding or entrails + garrīre ( “ to chatter ” ) .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
August (plural Augusts )
The eighth month of the Roman , Julian , and Gregorian calendars , following July and preceding September .
1897 December (indicated as 1898 ), Winston Churchill , chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode , New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company ; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. , →OCLC :The day was cool and snappy for August , and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: [ …] .
A female given name from English derived from the month (rare modern usage).
1993 , Margaret Atwood , Robber Bride , Virago Press, published 2013 , →ISBN , page 48 :August , Charis named her, because that's when she was born. Warm breezes, baby powder, languorous heat, the smell of mown hay. Such a soft name. Too soft for her daughter, who has added an a . Augusta, she is now — a very different resonance. Marble statues, Roman noses, tight-lipped commanding mouths.
Synonyms
Sextilis ( chiefly early Roman contexts ) , Sextile ( early Roman contexts, now uncommon )
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
eighth month of the Gregorian calendar
Abaza: август ( avgust )
Abkhaz: нанҳәа ( nanḥʷa )
Adyghe: шышъхьэӏу ( šəŝḥɛʼwu )
Afrikaans: Augustus (af)
Alabama: hasiholtina istontótchìina , Awkoska
Albanian: gusht m , djegagur
Alemannic German: August m
Alutiiq: Alagnat Iraluat
Amharic: ኦገስት ( ʾogäst )
Apache:
Western Apache: Binestʼántsʼǭǭsé
Arabic: أَغُسْطُس m ( ʔaḡusṭus ) , آب (ar) m ( ʔāb )
Hijazi Arabic: أوقست m ( ʔōgast ) , أغُسْطُس m ( ʔuḡusṭus, ʔaḡusṭus )
Tunisian Arabic: أوت m ( ʔūt )
Moroccan Arabic: غشت m ( ḡušt )
Aragonese: agosto (an) m
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܒ m ( āb ) , ܛܲܒܵܚ m ( ṭabbāḥ ) , ܐܵܓ݂ܘܼܣܛܘܿܣ m ( āḡusṭos )
Classical Syriac: ܐܒܝ , ܐܒ
Armenian: օգոստոս (hy) ( ōgostos )
Old Armenian: օգոստոս ( ōgostos )
Aromanian: avgustu , agustu (roa-rup)
Asturian: agostu (ast) m
Atikamekw: Otatakon pisimw
Azerbaijani: avqust (az)
Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
Basque: abuztu (eu)
Belarusian: жні́вень (be) m ( žnívjenʹ )
Bengali: অগাস্ট (bn) ( ogasṭ )
Bislama: ogis
Brahui: Agast
Breton: Eost (br) , miz Eost
Bulgarian: а́вгуст (bg) m ( ávgust )
Burmese: ဩဂုတ် (my) ( au:gut ) , ရှစ်လ ( hracla. )
Catalan: agost (ca) m
Cebuano: agosto
Central Dusun: Magus
Central Franconian: Aujuss
Chechen: Марсхьокху-бутт ( Marsḥʳoqu-butt )
Cherokee: ᎦᎶᏂ ( galoni )
Chichewa: Ogasiti
Chinese:
Cantonese: 八月 ( baat3 jyut6 )
Dungan: байүә ( bayüə )
Hakka: 八月 ( pat-ngie̍t )
Hokkien: 八月 ( peh-go̍eh, peh-ge̍h, peh-gōe, poeh-go̍eh, poeh-ge̍h, poeh-gōe )
Mandarin: 八月 (zh) ( bāyuè ) , 8月 (zh) ( bāyuè )
Chukchi: ӈэтйъилгын ( ṇėtjʺilgyn ) , ӈэтйъиԓгын ( ṇėtjʺiḷgyn )
Chuvash: ҫурла ( śurla )
Coptic: ⲁⲩⲅⲟⲩⲥⲧⲟⲥ ( augoustos )
Cornish: Est m
Corsican: aostu (co)
Crimean Tatar: avgustos
Czech: srpen (cs) m
Dakota: Wiišahdoǧaŋ
Danish: august (da) c
Dhivehi: އޮގަސްޓު ( ogasṭu )
Dutch: augustus (nl) m
Dzongkha: སྤྱི་ཟླ་བརྒྱད་པ། ( spyi zla brgyad pa )
Erzya: умарьков ( umaŕkov )
Esperanto: aŭgusto (eo) , Aŭgusto
Estonian: august (et)
Ewe: Dasiamime , August
Faroese: august
Fijian: Okosita
Finnish: elokuu (fi)
Franco-Provençal: oût m
French: août (fr) m , aout (fr) m
Friulian: Avost m
Galician: agosto (gl) m
Georgian: აგვისტო (ka) ( agvisṭo )
German: August (de) m , Ernting (de) m
Gilbertese: Aokati
Greek: Αύγουστος (el) m ( Ávgoustos )
Ancient: Αὔγουστος m ( Aúgoustos )
Greenlandic: aggusti , aggustusi
Guaraní: jasypoapy
Haitian Creole: out
Hausa: Agusta (ha)
Hawaiian: ʻAukake
Hebrew: אוגוסט \ אוֹגוּסְט (he) m ( ogúst )
Hindi: अगस्त (hi) m ( agast )
Hungarian: augusztus (hu)
Icelandic: ágúst (is) m , ágústmánuður m
Ido: agosto (io)
Indonesian: Agustus (id)
Interlingua: augusto (ia)
Inuktitut: ᐋᒡᒋᓯ ( aaccisi )
Inupiaq: Amiġaiqsivik , Tiŋŋivik
Irish: Lúnasa (ga) m
Italian: agosto (it) m
Jamaican Creole: Augos , Aagos
Japanese: 八月 (ja) ( はちがつ, hachigatsu ) , 葉月 (ja) ( はづき, hazuki )
Javanese: agustus
Kabuverdianu: agostu
ALUPEC : agostu
Badiu : agostu
São Vicente : agost'
Kambera: wulang walu
Kannada: ಆಗಸ್ಟ್ ( āgasṭ )
Kapampangan: Pángawalûng búlan , Ogustu/Augustu
Kashubian: zélnik (csb)
Kazakh: тамыз (kk) ( tamyz )
Khmer: សីហា (km) ( səyhaa )
Kikuyu: Mworia Nyoni
Komi-Permyak: август ( avgust )
Kongo: auti
Korean: 팔월(八月) (ko) ( parwol )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: gelawêj meh
Kyrgyz: август (ky) ( avgust )
Ladin: aost , agost
Lao: ເດືອນສິງຫາ ( dư̄an sing hā )
Latin: augustus (la) , sextilis m or f
Latvian: augusts (lv)
Lezgi: пахун ( paχun )
Limburgish: Augustus (li)
Lingala: augústo
Lithuanian: rugpjūtis (lt) m
Livonian: ougust , vīļakū
Low German: August (nds) m , Augustmaand m
Luxembourgish: August (lb) m , Karschnatz (lb) m
Macedonian: август (mk) m ( avgust )
Malagasy: Aogositra (mg)
Malay:
Jawi: اوݢوس (ms)
Rumi: Ogos (ms)
Malayalam: ഓഗസ്റ്റ് (ml) ( ōgasṟṟŭ )
Maltese: Awissu , Awwissu (mt) m
Manchu: ᠵᠠᡴᡡᠨ ᠪᡳ᠍ᠶᠠ ( jakūn biya )
Maori: Ākuhata
Marathi: ऑगस्ट ( ŏgasṭa )
Marshallese: O̧kwōj
Mingrelian: მარაშინათუთა ( marašinatuta ) , არგუსო ( arguso ) , არგუსო ( arguso )
Mirandese: Agosto m
Mòcheno: agst m
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: наймдугаар сар ( najmdugaar sar )
Montagnais: upau-pishimᵘ
Navajo: Biniʼantʼą́ą́tsʼózí
Neapolitan: aùsto
North Frisian:
Föhr-Amrum: august m
Mooring: beeridmoune m , august
Northern Sami: borgemánnu
Northern Sotho: Phato
Norwegian:
Bokmål: august (no) m
Nynorsk: august (nn) m
Occitan: agost (oc) m
Odia: ଅଗଷ୍ଟ ( agashṭa )
Ojibwe: manoominike-giizis
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: заревъ m ( zarevŭ )
Old Dutch: aranmānoth
Old English: wēodmōnaþ m
Oromo: Haggaya
Ossetian: август ( avgust )
Pannonian Rusyn: авґуст m ( avgust )
Pashto: اګست m ( ágəst )
Pennsylvania German: Aaguscht
Persian:
Dari: اَگَسْت ( agast )
Iranian Persian: اوت (fa) ( ut )
Plautdietsch: August (nds) m
Polish: sierpień (pl) m
Pontic Greek: Αύγουστος ( Ávgoustos )
Portuguese: agosto (pt) m
Punjabi: ਅਗਸਤ (pa) m ( agasat )
Romanian: august (ro) , (please verify ) gustar popular , măsălar popular
Romansch: avost m , avuost m , avust m , uost m
Russian: а́вгуст (ru) m ( ávgust )
Samoan: aokuso
Sardinian: agustu , austu
Saterland Frisian: August
Scots: August
Scottish Gaelic: Lùnastal m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: август m , аугуст m
Roman: avgust (sh) m , august (sh) m , kolovoz (sh) m ( Croatia )
Shona: Nyamavhuvhu
Sicilian: austu (scn) m
Sinhalese: අගෝස්තු (si) ( agōstu )
Skolt Sami: påʹrǧǧmään
Slovak: august (sk) m
Slovene: avgúst (sl) m
Spanish: agosto (es) m
Sundanese: august
Swahili: Agosti
Swazi: íNgci (ss)
Swedish: augusti (sv) c
Tagalog: Agosto (tl)
Tahitian: 'atete
Tajik: август (tg) ( avgust )
Tamil: ஆகஸ்டு ( ākasṭu )
Tatar: август ( awgust )
Telugu: ఆగస్టు ( āgasṭu )
Thai: สิงหาคม (th) ( sǐng-hǎa-kom )
Tok Pisin: ogas
Tongan: ʻAokosi
Turkish: ağustos (tr) , orakayı (tr) , bozaran (tr) , harman ayı , cırcır (tr)
Turkmen: awgust (tk)
Tuvan: сес ай ( ses ay )
Udmurt: гудырикошкон ( gudyrikoškon )
Ukrainian: се́рпень (uk) ( sérpenʹ )
Urdu: اَگَسْت (ur) m ( agast )
Uyghur: ئاۋغۇست ( awghust ) , سەككىزىنچى ئاي ( sekkizinchi ay )
Uzbek: avgust (uz)
Vai: ꖺꗝꖬ ( Ɔ́gɔ́su )
Venetan: agosto (vec)
Vietnamese: tháng tám (vi)
Volapük: gustul (vo)
Võro: põimukuu
Walloon: awousse (wa)
Welsh: Awst (cy) m
West Frisian: augustus (fy) , rispmoanne (fy)
Winnebago: Watajox hii wiira
Wolof: Ut
Yakut: Атырдьах ыйа ( Atırjaq ıya )
Yiddish: אויגוסט (yi) m ( oygust )
Yup'ik: Amirairun
Zazaki: awustose , tebaxe (diq)
Zuni:
Olo'ik'yana: Idew'a
Onan: U'la'k'yakwamme
See also
(Gregorian calendar months ) Gregorian calendar month ; January , February , March , April , May , June , July , August , September , October , November , December (Category: en:Gregorian calendar months )
Etymology 2
In some cases a month name from English. In other cases inspired by the common German given name August , from Latin Augustus .
Proper noun
August
A male given name from Latin .
1974 , Witi Ihimaera , Whanau , Heinemann, page 76 :Thirteen year old August is the eldest; he begins to pull the kite downward. Like his sister and brother, June and July, he has been named after the month in which he was born.
A surname from Latin .
A census-designated place in San Joaquin County , California , United States .
Translations
Anagrams
Catalan
Proper noun
August m
Augustus
Danish
Etymology
From Latin Augustus .
Proper noun
August
a male given name . Feminine form: Augusta
Estonian
Etymology
From Latin Augustus .
Proper noun
August
a male given name
Ewe
Proper noun
August
August (month)
Faroese
Etymology
From Latin Augustus .
Proper noun
August m
a male given name
Usage notes
Patronymics
son of August: Augustsson
daughter of August: Augustsdóttir
Declension
singular
indefinite
nominative
August
accusative
August
dative
Augusti
genitive
Augusts
Finnish
Etymology
From Swedish August , from Latin Augustus .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
August
a male given name
Usage notes
Now chiefly used as a middle name.
Declension
Statistics
August is the 519th (tied with 1 other name) most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 383 male individuals (and as a middle name to 5,221 more, making it much more common as a middle name), and also belongs as a middle name to 14 female individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Augustus .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /aʊ̯ˈɡʊst/ ( month )
IPA (key ) : /ˈaʊ̯ɡʊst/ ( given name )
Noun
August m (strong , genitive August or Augusts or Augustes , plural Auguste )
August (month)
Synonyms: ( archaic ) Ährenmonat ; ( archaic ) Erntemonat ; ( archaic ) Erntemond ; ( archaic ) Ernting ; ( archaic ) Sichelmonat
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
(Gregorian calendar months ) Monat im gregorianischen Kalender (Gregorianischen Kalender ) ;
( common ) Januar / Jänner , Februar / Feber , März , April , Mai , Juni (Juno ), Juli (Julei ), August , September , Oktober , November , Dezember
( archaic, poetic ) Hartung , Hornung , Lenzing , Launing / Ostermond / Ostermonat , Wonnemond , Brachet , Heuert / Heumonat , Ernting / Erntemond / Erntemonat , Scheiding , Gilbhart , Nebelung , Julmond (Category: de:Gregorian calendar months )
Proper noun
August m (proper noun , strong , genitive Augusts or August )
a male given name , feminine equivalent Augusta or Auguste , equivalent to English Augustus
Descendants
transliterations of the German male given name August
Further reading
“August ” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
“August ” in Duden online
Hunsrik
Etymology
Borrowed from German August .[ 1] Doublet of Aagust .
Pronunciation
Noun
August m (plural August )
August
See also
(Gregorian calendar months ) Monate im gregorianicher Kalenner ; Januer , Februer , Merz , April , Maai , Juni , Juli , August / Aagust , September , Oktover , November , Dezember (Category: hrx:Gregorian calendar months )
Proper noun
August m
a male given name , equivalent to English Augustus
References
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From German August .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
August m
August
See also
(Gregorian calendar months ) Mount am Gregorianesche Kalenner ; Januar , Februar , Mäerz , Abrëll , Mee , Juni , Juli , August , September , Oktober , November , Dezember (Category: lb:Months )
North Frisian
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin augustus .
Noun
August m
( Sylt ) August
Synonym: Bārichtmuun
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin Augustus .
Proper noun
August
a male given name
See also
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin Augustus .
Proper noun
August
a male given name
See also
Plautdietsch
Noun
August m
August (month)
Polish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin Augustus .
Proper noun
August m pers (female equivalent Augusta )
a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Augustus
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Proper noun
August f
genitive plural of Augusta
Further reading
August in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Scots
Etymology
Early Middle English August(us) , re-Latinized from Old English Agustus , from Late Latin Agustus , from Latin augustus ( “ month of August ” ) , from the agnomen Augustus ( “ venerable ” ) of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus .
Proper noun
August
August (month)
See also
(Gregorian calendar months ) Januar , Februar , Mairch , Apryle , Mey , Juin , Julie , August , September , October , November , December (Category: sco:Gregorian calendar months )
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin Augustus .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
August c (genitive Augusts )
a male given name . Feminine form: Augusta
See also