august
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɔːˈɡʌst/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɔːˈɡʌst/, /ə-/
Audio (GA) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌst
- Hyphenation: au‧gust
Etymology 1
From French auguste (“noble, stately; august”) or Latin augustus (“majestic, venerable, august; imperial, royal”),[1] from augeō (“to augment, increase; to enlarge, expand, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- (“to enlarge, increase”).
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 191672588, 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 31888331, 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."
- 1841, E[lijah] C[oleman] Bridgman, “Governmental Affairs”, in A Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect, Macao: S[amuel] Wells Williams, OCLC 806406066, section second (Imperial Titles), page 558:
- The commands of the august sovereign are the imperial commands, or the phœnix (the incomparable) mandate.
- 1846, Robert Browning, “Luria”, in Bells and Pomegranates, volume VIII (Luria; and A Soul’s Tragedy), London: Edward Moxon, OCLC 793033490; republished in Poems [...] In Two Volumes, volume II, new edition, London: Chapman & Hall, […], 1849, OCLC 1145736, 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 912202873, 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.
- 2015 December 5, Alan Smith, “Leicester City back on top as Riyad Mahrez hat-trick downs Swansea City”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 29 March 2017:
- For once the story was not about Jamie Vardy, unable to equal Jimmy Dunne's top-flight record of scoring in a dozen consecutive games, but about his august deputy Riyad Mahrez.
- 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[homas] Cautley Newby, publisher, […], OCLC 3251659, 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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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 1988592, 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.
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References
- “august” (US) / “august” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
Catalan
Adjective
august (feminine augusta, masculine plural augusts or augustos, feminine plural augustes)
- august (venerable, noble)
Derived terms
- augustament
Further reading
- “august” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /avɡɔst/, [ɑwˈɡ̊ɔsd̥]
Estonian
Inflection
singular | plural | |
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nominative | august | augustid |
accusative | augusti | augustid |
genitive | augusti | augustite |
partitive | augustit | augusteid |
illative | augustisse | augustitesse augusteisse |
inessive | augustis | augustites augusteis |
elative | augustist | augustitest augusteist |
allative | augustile | augustitele augusteile |
adessive | augustil | augustitel augusteil |
ablative | augustilt | augustitelt augusteilt |
translative | augustiks | augustiteks augusteiks |
terminative | augustini | augustiteni |
essive | augustina | augustitena |
abessive | augustita | augustiteta |
comitative | augustiga | augustitega |
Faroese
Interlingue
North Frisian
Norwegian Bokmål
See also
Norwegian Nynorsk
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaw.ɡust/
See also
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /awˈɡust/
Adjective
august m or n (feminine singular augustă, masculine plural auguști, feminine and neuter plural auguste)
Declension
Synonyms
- slăvit, preamărit
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- avgust (Serbia)
Synonyms
- kolovoz (Croatia)
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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈau̯ɡust/
Noun
august m (genitive singular augusta, nominative plural augusty, genitive plural augustov, declension pattern of dub)
Declension
Derived terms
- augustový