# augustus
## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Augustus. Doublet of oogst.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑu̯ˈɣʏs.tʏs/, /ɑu̯ˈɣʏs.təs/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: au‧gus‧tus

### Noun

augustus m (plural augustussen)
* August (month)
    Synonym: (archaic) oogstmaand

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: Augustus
* Negerhollands: august
* →? Caribbean Hindustani: agast
* → Caribbean Javanese: agustus
* → Indonesian: Agustus
* → Papiamentu: ougùstùs
* → Sranan Tongo: augustus
* → Trió: ahkëtë

### See also

* januari
* februari
* maart
* april
* mei
* juni
* juli
* augustus
* september
* oktober
* november
* december

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *augostos (“amplified, increased, augmented, strengthened”), from *augos (“an increase, augmentation”) +‎ *-tos, an old neuter s-stem formed to the root of Latin augeō (“I increase, enlarge”). Its descendant appears in Classical Latin as augur, auguris with shifted gender/sense ("augur") and levelling of the -r-.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /au̯ˈɡus.tus/, [äu̯ˈɡʊs̠t̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /au̯ˈɡus.tus/, [äu̯ˈɡust̪us]

### Adjective

augustus (feminine augusta, neuter augustum, comparative augustior, superlative augustissimus); first/second-declension adjective
* august, solemn, majestic, venerable
* Alternative letter-case form of Augustus

#### Usage notes

* Originally a word of religious use, but given as a title to the emperor Augustus.

#### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

#### Related terms

* Augusta
* augustālis
* augustāneus
* augustēum
* augustēus
* Augustus

### See also

* Augustus

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “augeō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 61–62
* ↑ Moreno Morani (1984) “Augurium augur augustus: una questione di metodo”, in Glotta (in Italian), volume 62, →JSTOR, pages 65–71

### Further reading

* “augustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “augustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "augustus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* augustus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “augustus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
* “augustus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “augustus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
* “augustus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Latvian
### Noun

augustus m
* accusative plural of augusts

## Limburgish
### Alternative forms

* Augustus, augustes (alternative spellings)
* auguustus (Valkenburg)
* Juss (Krefeld)
* Augusst, Ogusst (Eupen)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus (“month of August”). Doublet of ougs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑu̯ˈɣʏs.tʏs/, /ɑu̯ˈɣʏs.təs/
    IPA: (Maastrichtian) [ɔʋˈɣʏs.təs]
* Hyphenation: au‧gus‧tus
* Rhymes: -ʏstʏs, -ʏstəs

### Noun

augustus
* August (month)

## West Frisian
### Etymology

From Latin augustus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔu̯ˈɡøstəs/

### Noun

augustus c (plural augustussen)
* August
    Synonym: rispmoanne

#### Further reading

* “augustus”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011