auguste
See also: Auguste
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaʊɡʊst/
Noun
auguste (plural augustes)
- (theater) A kind of clown, usually serving as an anarchic foil to the whiteface.
- 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F (Penguin 2004), page 93:
- It had been used for clownish mock-disappearences, one auguste looking for another through endlessly circling blackness, an apparatus not now much in use.
- 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F (Penguin 2004), page 93:
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.ɡyst/
Etymology 2
From German (dumme) August.
Further reading
- “auguste” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Latin
References
- auguste in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- auguste in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- auguste in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Novial
Etymology
A root word. Root: august-. Morphemes: august- + -e (2).
Related terms
- januare: January
- februare: February
- marte: March
- aprile: April
- maye: May
- june: June
- julie: July
- septembre: September
- oktobre: October
- novembre: November
- desembre: December
- kalendre: calendar
- yare: year
- mensu: month
- sesone: season
- vintre: winter
- printempe: spring
- sumre: summer
- autumne: autumn
- Kristonasko: Christmas
- Paske: Easter
- semestre: semester
- trimestre: quarter, trimester
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