Avgust

Avgust is a male given name.

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Russian name

In Russian, Avgust (Russian: А́вгуст or Авгу́ст) is a male given name.[1] Its feminine versions are Avgusta[2] and Avgustina.[3] The name is derived from the Latin word augustus, which means majestic,[2] but originally meant devoted to an augur (a priest who practiced augury, interpreting the will of the gods by studying the flight of birds).[1]

The name was included into various, often handwritten, church calendars throughout the 17th–19th centuries, but was omitted from the official Synodal Menologium at the end of the 19th century.[4] In 1924–1930, the name was included into various Soviet calendars,[4] which included the new and often artificially created names promoting the new Soviet realities and encouraging the break with the tradition of using the names in the Synodal Menologia.[5]

Its diminutives include Ava (А́ва),[1] Gutya (Гу́тя),[1] Gusta (Гу́ста),[2] Gustya (Гу́стя),[2] and Gustey (Густе́й).[6]

The patronymics derived from "Avgust" are "А́вгустович" (Avgustovich; masculine) and "А́вгустовна" (Avgustovna; feminine).[2]

"Avgust" is also a colloquial form of the given name Avgustin.[2]

People with the name
  • Avgust Černigoj (1898–1985), Slovenian/Yugoslavian painter, avant-garde experimenter in Constructivism
  • Avgust Demšar, (born 1962), Slovenian detective fiction writer
  • Avgust Ipavec (born 1940), Slovenian composer and priest
  • Avgust Pavel, Slovenian spelling of the name of Ágoston Pável (born 1886), Hungarian Slovene writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist, and historian
  • Avgust Pirjevec (1887–1944), Slovene literary scholar, lexicographer, and librarian
  • Avgust Tsivolko (1810–1839), Russian navigator and Arctic explorer

See also

References

Notes
  1. Superanskaya [1], p. 21
  2. Petrovsky, p. 32
  3. Nikonov, p. 63
  4. Superanskaya [2], pp. 22, 23, and 31
  5. Toronto Slavic Quarterly. Елена Душечкина. "Мессианские тенденции в советской антропонимической практике 1920-х - 1930-х годов" (in Russian)
  6. Superanskaya [2], p. 31

Sources
  • Н. А. Петровский (N. A. Petrovsky). "Словарь русских личных имён" (Dictionary of Russian First Names). ООО Издательство "АСТ". Москва, 2005. ISBN 5-17-002940-3
  • В. А. Никонов (V. A. Nikonov). "Ищем имя" (Looking for a Name). Изд. "Советская Россия". Москва, 1988. ISBN 5-268-00401-8
  • [1] А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Современный словарь личных имён: Сравнение. Происхождение. Написание" (Modern Dictionary of First Names: Comparison. Origins. Spelling). Айрис-пресс. Москва, 2005. ISBN 5-8112-1399-9
  • [2] А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Словарь русских имён" (Dictionary of Russian Names). Издательство Эксмо. Москва, 2005. ISBN 5-699-14090-5
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