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English
Noun
augites
- plural of augite
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐγῑ́της (augī́tēs, “a precious stone”), probably from αὖγος (aûgos, “morning light, dawn”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).
Pronunciation
Noun
augītēs m (genitive augītae); first declension
- A kind of precious stone, often thought to be turquoise
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).
Descendants
References
- “augites”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- augites in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “augites”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers