août
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French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old French aost, from Vulgar Latin agustus, from Latin augustus. Doublet of auguste.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /u/, /ut/, /a.u/, /a.ut/[1]
Audio (Paris): (file) - The final /t/ is now predominantly sounded in France, but mostly silent elsewhere. The disyllabic pronunciations are dated in Europe, but remain common variants in North America.
- Homophones: aoûts (general), aoûte, aoûtent, aoûtes (forms with /t/), ou, où (form /u/), hou, houe, houes, houx (form /u/, but aspirated)
Noun
août m (plural aoûts)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Guianese Creole: oût
- Haitian Creole: out
- Mauritian Creole: out
- → Iranian Persian: اوت (ut)
- → South Azerbaijani: اوت (ut)
- → Tunisian Arabic: اوت (ūt)
See also
- (Gregorian calendar months) mois du calendrier grégorien; janvier, février, mars, avril, mai, juin, juillet, août, septembre, octobre, novembre, décembre (Category: fr:Gregorian calendar months)
References
- ^ “août”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Further reading
- “août”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Anagrams
Norman
Alternative forms
- Août (Jersey)
Etymology
From Old French aoust, from Vulgar Latin agustus, from Latin augustus.
Noun
août m (plural aoûts)