augites

augites

1. plural of augite

Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐγῑ́της (augī́tēs, “a precious stone”), probably from αὖγος (aûgos, “morning light, dawn”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈɡiː.teːs/

augītēs m (genitive augītae); first declension

1. A kind of precious stone, often thought to be turquoise

First declension, masculine Greek type with nominative singular in -ēs.

• augites in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• augites in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• augites in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers