august

English Online Dictionary. What means august‎? What does august mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɔːˈɡʌst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɔˈɡʌst/, /ə-/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɑˈɡʌst/
• Rhymes: -ʌst
• Hyphenation: au‧gust

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)

1. Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable.
2. Of noble birth.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From August.

Verb

august (third-person singular simple present augusts, present participle augusting, simple past and past participle augusted)

1. (obsolete, rare) To make ripe; ripen.
2. (obsolete, rare) To bring to realization.

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

august (plural augusts)

1. Alternative form of auguste (“kind of clown”)

References

Anagrams

• Tausug

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus. Doublet of agost, which was inherited through Vulgar Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əwˈɣust]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [awˈɣust]

Adjective

august (feminine augusta, masculine plural augusts or augustos, feminine plural augustes)

1. august (venerable, noble)

Derived terms

• augustament

Further reading

• “august”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /avˈɡost/, [ɑwˈɡ̊ɔsd̥], [ɑ̈wˈkɔ̽st]

Noun

august c

1. August (the eighth month of the Gregorian calendar)

See also

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from German August.

Noun

august (genitive augusti, partitive augustit)

1. August

Inflection

Synonyms

• lõikuskuu
• põimukuu
• viljakuu
• rukkikuu
• mädakuu

See also

Faroese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august m

1. August (month of the Gregorian calendar)

See also

Further reading

• "august" at Sprotin.fo

Interlingua

Noun

august (plural augustes)

1. Alternative form of augusto

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• August (Sylt)

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin augustus.

Noun

august m

1. (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring) August

   Synonym: (Mooring) gjarsmoune

See also

• months of the year in Föhr-Amrum Frisian: janewoore, febrewoore, marts, april, mei, jüüne, jüüle, august, september, oktuuber, nofember, deetsember

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august (indeclinable)

1. August (eighth month of the year)

See also

References

• “august” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august m (indeclinable)

1. August (eighth month)

References

• “august” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin (mensis) augustus. Cf. also the inherited doublet agust and gust.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaw.ɡust/

Noun

august m (uncountable)

1. August

Synonyms

• gustar (colloquial, popular/folk name), gust / agust, măsălar (rarer popular/folk name)

See also

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French auguste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /awˈɡust/

Adjective

august m or n (feminine singular augustă, masculine plural auguști, feminine and neuter plural auguste)

1. august, majestic, venerable

   Synonyms: slăvit, preamărit

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• avgust (Serbia)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Noun

august m (Cyrillic spelling аугуст)

1. (Bosnia) August

   Synonym: (Croatia) kolovoz

Coordinate terms

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin augustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈauɡust]

Noun

august m inan (relational adjective augustový)

1. August

Declension

See also

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, 2003–2025