August

Early Middle English August(us), re-Latinized from Old English Agustus, from Late Latin Agustus, from Latin augustus (“month of August”), from the agnomen Augustus (“venerable”) of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, possibly from either Old Latin *augos, increase, from Proto-Indo-European base *aug- (“to increase”); or Latin avis (“bird”), referring to divination by observing bird flights, singing, feeding or entrails, from Proto-Indo-European *awi-, bird; + Latin garrire (“to chatter”), from Proto-Indo-European base *gar-/*ger-, to cry, of imitative origin

• Aug, Aug. (abbreviations)
• Aguste (obsolete)
• Augost (Jamaica)

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ôʹgəst, IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.ɡəst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ɡəst/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.ɡəst/

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August (plural Augusts)

1. The eighth month of the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, following July and preceding September.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:

     The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: […] .

2. A female given name derived from the month (rare modern usage).
   • 1993, Margaret Atwood, Robber Bride, Virago Press (2013), →ISBN, page 48:

     August, Charis named her, because that's when she was born. Warm breezes, baby powder, languorous heat, the smell of mown hay. Such a soft name. Too soft for her daughter, who has added an a. Augusta, she is now — a very different resonance. Marble statues, Roman noses, tight-lipped commanding mouths.

• Sextilis (chiefly early Roman contexts), Sextile (early Roman contexts, now uncommon)

• Augustal
• Augustan
• Augustean
• augusteity
• Augustin, Augustine
• Augustinian
• augustious
• Augustus

• → Burmese: ဩဂုတ် (au:gut)

• (Gregorian calendar months) Gregorian calendar month; January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December ^{(Category: en:Gregorian calendar months)}

In some cases a month name from English. In other cases inspired by the common German given name August, from Latin Augustus.

August

1. A male given name.
   • 1974 Witi Ihimaera, Whanau, Heinemann, page 76:

     Thirteen year old August is the eldest; he begins to pull the kite downward. Like his sister and brother, June and July, he has been named after the month in which he was born.

• Tausug

August m

1. Augustus

Derived from Latin Augustus.

August

1. A male given name. Feminine form: Augusta.

Derived from Latin Augustus.

August

1. A male given name.

• Ago, Agu

August

1. August

• Dasiamime

From Latin Augustus.

August m

1. A male given name

Patronymics

• son of August: Augustsson
• daughter of August: Augustsdóttir

Derived via Swedish, from Latin Augustus.

August

1. A male given name.

• Now chiefly used as a middle name.

• Aku, Akusti, Aukusti, Kusti

• IPA^(key): /aʊ̯ˈɡʊst/ (month)
• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊ̯ɡʊst/ (given name)

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August m (genitive August or Augusts or Augustes, plural Auguste)

1. August (month)

• Ährenmonat (archaic)
• Erntemonat (archaic)
• Erntemond (archaic)
• Ernting (archaic)
• Sichelmonat (archaic)

August m (genitive Augusts or August)

1. A male given name, cognate with English Augustus.

• female given name: Augusta
• Augustana
• female given name: Auguste
• August der Starke (Friedrich August I. von Sachsen, August II. der Starke)
• augusteisch
• Augustin
• Augustine
• Augustiner
• Augustinerchorherr
• Augustinerchorherren
• Augustinerin
• Augustinerinnen
• Augustinerregel
• Augustinerregeln
• Augustinus
• Sachsenkönig August der Starke

From German August.

• IPA^(key): /au̯ˈɡust/, [ɑʊ̯ˈɡust]

August m

1. August

• (Gregorian calendar months) Mount am Gregorianesche Kalenner; Januar, Februar, Mäerz, Abrëll, Mee, Juni, Juli, August, September, Oktober, November, Dezember ^{(Category: lb:Months)}

Derived from Latin Augustus.

August

1. A male given name.

• august (Bokmål), august (Nynorsk)

August

1. August (month)

• Daggis

Early Middle English August(us), re-Latinized from Old English Agustus, from Late Latin Agustus, from Latin augustus (“month of August”), from the agnomen Augustus (“venerable”) of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, possibly from either Old Latin *augos, increase, from Proto-Indo-European base *aug- (“to increase”); or Latin avis (“bird”), referring to divination by observing bird flights, singing, feeding or entrails, from Proto-Indo-European *awi-, bird; + Latin garrire (“to chatter”), from Proto-Indo-European base *gar-/*ger-, to cry, of imitative origin

August

1. August

• (Gregorian calendar months) Januar, Februar, Mairch, Apryle, Mey, Juin, Julie, August, September, October, November, December ^{(Category: sco:Gregorian calendar months)}

Derived from Latin Augustus.

August c (genitive Augusts)

1. A male given name. Feminine form: Augusta