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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From French auguste (“noble, stately; august”) or Latin augustus (“majestic, venerable, august; imperial, royal”), from augeō (“to augment, increase; to enlarge, expand, spread”). Doublet of Augustus.
Adjective
august (comparative auguster or more august, superlative augustest or most august)
- Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable.
an august patron of the arts
1796, Gilbert Bishop of Sarum [i.e., Gilbert Burnet], “Article VII. Of the Old Testament.”, in An Exposition of the XXXIX Articles of the Church of England, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 123:In the book of Pſalms there are many things ſaid of David, which ſeem capable of a much auguſter ſenſe than can be pretended to be anſwered by any thing that befel himſelf.
1837 August 31, William Sollis, A Sermon, Preached in Holsworthy Church on Thursday, August 31, 1837, at the Anniversaries of the Societies for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts. , Launceston, Cornwall: Penheale-Press, Rev. H. A. Simcoe, →OCLC, page 7:[W]e shall not, I think, be able to find language which can convey in few words more fully the idea we should always have impressed on our minds of the august character of our Lord, than the expression, "the word of life."
1846, Robert Browning, “Luria”, in Bells and Pomegranates, volumes VIII (Luria; and A Soul’s Tragedy), London: Edward Moxon, →OCLC; republished in Poems In Two Volumes, new edition, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, , 1849, →OCLC, act IV, page 192:—Inconsciously to the augustest end / Thou hast arisen: second not in rank / So much as time, to him who first ordained / That Florence, thou art to destroy, should be— […]
1899, Sei Shōnagon, “Makura Zōshi [The Attack of the Dog Okinamaro upon the Cat Miyōbu no Otodo]”, in W[illiam] G[eorge] Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 111:The foolish dog […] flew at the cat, who in her fright and consternation took refuge behind the screen of the breakfast-room where his Majesty then was. The Mikado was greatly shocked and agitated. He took the cat into his august bosom, and summoning the chamberlain Tadataka, gave orders that Okinamaro should have a good thrashing and be banished to Dog Island at once.
2016, Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu, Death's End, Tor, translation of 死神永生, →ISBN, page 280:Countless proposals flooded in, sent by sources as august as the World Academy of Sciences and as humble as elementary schools.
- Of noble birth.
an august lineage
1873, Walter Fitz Patrick, chapter I, in The Great Condé and the Period of the Fronde: A Historical Sketch, volume I, London: T Cautley Newby, publisher, , →OCLC, page 7:A branch of the house of Lorraine, in comparison with which even the royal race of Capet was mean, the Guises traced back their august lineage through a long line of warrior princes to the Imperial figure of Charlemagne.
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Translations
awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable
- Bulgarian: ца́рствен (bg) (cárstven), вели́чествен (bg) (velíčestven)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 威嚴的/威严的 (wēiyán de), 威風凜凜的/威风凛凛的 (wēifēnglǐnlǐn de)
- Finnish: ylevä (fi), kunnianarvoisa
- French: auguste (fr)
- Galician: augusto m
- German: illuster (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: σεβαστός (sebastós)
- Ido: augusta (io)
- Macedonian: вели́чествен (velíčestven), ца́рствен (cárstven)
- Portuguese: augusto (pt), majestoso (pt), nobre (pt)
- Russian: вели́чественный (ru) (velíčestvennyj), велича́вый (ru) (veličávyj), ца́рственный (ru) (cárstvennyj), августе́йший (ru) (avgustéjšij)
- Spanish: majestuoso (es), augusto (es)
- Swedish: majestätisk (sv)
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Etymology 2
From August.
Verb
august (third-person singular simple present augusts, present participle augusting, simple past and past participle augusted)
- (obsolete, rare) To make ripe; ripen.
- (obsolete, rare) To bring to realization.
1855, Philip James Bailey, The Mystic and Other Poems, London: Chapman and Hall, , →OCLC, page 55:By divine science and cœlestial art / He for the cause of the dear nations toiled, / And augusted man's heavenly hopes that so, / […] / he might, by awful rites / […] / Adhæsion with Divinity achieve.
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
august (plural augusts)
- Alternative form of auguste (“kind of clown”)
References
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin augustus. Doublet of agost, which was inherited through Vulgar Latin.
Pronunciation
Adjective
august (feminine augusta, masculine plural augusts or augustos, feminine plural augustes)
- august (venerable, noble)
Derived terms
Further reading
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin augustus.
Pronunciation
Noun
august c
- August (the eighth month of the Gregorian calendar)
See also
- (Gregorian calendar months) måned i den gregorianske kalender; januar, februar, marts, april, maj, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, december
Obsolete words: glugmåned, blidemåned, tormåned, fåremåned, ?, ?, ormemåned, høstmåned, fiskemåned, liljemåned, slagtemåned, kristmåned (Category: da:Months)
Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from German August.
Noun
august (genitive augusti, partitive augustit)
- August
Inflection
Synonyms
See also
- (Gregorian calendar months) Gregoriuse kalendri kuu; jaanuar, veebruar, märts, aprill, mai, juuni, juuli, august, september, oktoober, november, detsember (Category: et:Months)
Faroese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin augustus.
Noun
august m
- August (month of the Gregorian calendar)
See also
- (Gregorian calendar months) januar, februar, mars, apríl, mai, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, desember (Category: fo:Months)
Interlingua
Noun
august (plural augustes)
- Alternative form of augusto
Kashubian
Etymology
Borrowed from German August.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈauɡust/
- Syllabification: au‧gust
Noun
august m inan
- August
- Synonym: zélnik
Further reading
- Jan Trepczyk (1994) “sierpień”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1-2
North Frisian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin augustus.
Noun
august m
- (Föhr-Amrum) August
See also
- months of the year in Föhr-Amrum North Frisian: janewoore, febrewoore, marts, april, mei, jüüne, jüüle, august, september, oktuuber, nofember, deetsember
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin augustus.
Noun
august (indeclinable)
- August (eighth month of the year)
See also
- (Gregorian calendar months) månad i den gregorianske kalenderen; januar, februar, mars, april, mai, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, desember (Category: no:Months)
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin augustus.
Noun
august m (indeclinable)
- August (eighth month)
References
Romanian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin (mensis) augustus. Cf. also the inherited doublet agust and gust.
Pronunciation
Noun
august m (uncountable)
- August
Synonyms
See also
- (Gregorian calendar months) lună a calendarului gregorian; ianuarie, februarie, martie, aprilie, mai, iunie, iulie, august, septembrie, octombrie, noiembrie, decembrie (Category: ro:Months)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French auguste.
Pronunciation
Adjective
august m or n (feminine singular augustă, masculine plural auguști, feminine and neuter plural auguste)
- august, majestic, venerable
- Synonyms: slăvit, preamărit
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin augustus.
Noun
august m (Cyrillic spelling аугуст)
- (Bosnia) August
- Synonym: (Croatia) kolovoz
See also
- (Gregorian calendar months) m(j)eseci gregorijanskog kalendara; januar/siječanj, februar/veljača, mart/ožujak, april/travanj, maj/svibanj, jun/juni/lipanj, jul/juli/srpanj, avgust/august/kolovoz, septembar/rujan, oktobar/listopad, novembar/studeni, decembar/prosinac (Category: sh:Gregorian calendar months)
Slovak
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin augustus.
Pronunciation
Noun
august m inan (genitive singular augusta, nominative plural augusty, genitive plural augustov, declension pattern of dub)
- August
Declension
Derived terms
See also
- (Gregorian calendar months) mesiac gregoriánskeho kalendára; január, február, marec, apríl, máj, jún, júl, august, september, október, november, december (Category: sk:Months)
Further reading
- “august”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Sundanese
Noun
august
- August