agustus

agustus

See also: Agustus

Gothic

Romanization

agustus

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌲𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃

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Latin

Etymology

From augustus via dissimilation of /au̯/ to /a/ before a following syllable containing /u/. Attested from the mid–late 1st century CE onward.[1]

Pronunciation

• (Proto-Romance) IPA^(key): /aˈɡʊstʊs/

Adjective

agustus (feminine agusta, neuter agustum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Vulgar Latin) of August
   • 691, Charte du Roy Clovis III. In: 1706, Michel Felibien, Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Saint-Denys en France, p. xj:

     Datum quod ficit minsis Agustus dies XII. anno primo rigni nostri, Captunnaco feliciter.

     (Note: ⟨minsis Agustus⟩ = mēnsis Augustus, i.e. the month of August)

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: agustu
  • Romanian: agust, gust
• Dalmatian:
  • aguast
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: aostu, austu, agostu
  • Italian: agosto
    • → Cimbrian: agosto
    • → Dalmatian: agost
  • Neapolitan: aùsto

    Tarantino: agúste

  • Sicilian: agustu, austu
    • → Maltese: Awwissu, Awissu
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: agåsst
    • Ligurian: agósto, austu, avusto, agusto
    • Lombard: agost, agust, avost, vost
    • Piedmontese: agust, aost, ost
    • Romagnol: agóst, agăst (Rimini)
  • Friulian: Avost
  • Ladin: aost
  • Romansch: avust, avuost, avost, uost
  • Venetian: agosto
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: août
  • Old French: aost
    • French: août, aout
      • Guianese Creole: oût
      • Haitian Creole: out
      • Mauritian Creole: out
      • → Iranian Persian: اوت‎ (ut)
    • Norman:

      Cotentin: âot

      Guernsey: août, avout

      Jersey: Août

      Sark: u

    • Picard: aou, iou
    • Walloon: awousse
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: agost
  • Gascon: aos
  • Occitan: agost, aost, avost, aos
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: agosto
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: agostu
    • Extremaduran: agosto
    • Mirandese: Agosto
  • Old Portuguese: agosto
    • Fala: Agostu
    • Galician: agosto
    • Portuguese: agosto (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: agosto
    • Ladino: ogusto
    • Spanish: agosto (see there for further descendants)
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian:
    • Logudorese: austu
    • Nuorese: agústu
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: gusht
  • → Proto-Brythonic:
    • Breton: Eost
    • Cornish: Est
    • Welsh: Awst

References

• agustus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Faculté des lettres de Rennes. 1891. Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l'ouest, vol. VII. Page 212.
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “a(u)gustus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 51

1. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “augŭstus (mēnsis)”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 925