Augustus

See also: augustus

English

Etymology

From Latin Augustus, from augustus (“majestic, venerable”). Doublet of august.

Pronunciation

enPR: ô-gŭsʹtəs, IPA^(key): /ɔːˈɡʌstəs/
Hyphenation: Au‧gus‧tus

Proper noun

Augustus

The Roman emperor Augustus, also called Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (63 B.C.E. – 14 C.E.); heir to Julius Caesar
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 2:1:
  And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
A male given name from Latin, risen in popularity since the 18th century.

Synonyms

(Emperor Augustus): Octavian, Octavius

Derived terms

Augustan
female given name: Augusta
male given names: August, Augustine, pet form: Gus
Fort Augustus
Pax Augusta

Translations

Roman emperor

Alemannic German: Augustus m
Armenian: Օգոստոս (Ōgostos)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܓܘܣܛܘܣ‎
Bengali: ঔগস্টস m (ougôsṭôsô)
Catalan: August (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 奧古斯都, 奥古斯都 (ou³ gu² si¹ dou¹)
Hakka: 奧古斯都, 奥古斯都 (o-kú-sṳ̂-tû)
Mandarin: 奧古斯都／奥古斯都 (zh) (Àogǔsīdū)
Coptic: ⲁⲩⲅⲟⲩⲥⲧⲟⲥ (augoustos)
Danish: Augustus
Dutch: Augustus (nl)
Estonian: Augustus
Finnish: Augustus (fi)
French: Auguste (fr) m
German: Augustus (de) m
Greek: Αύγουστος (el) m (Ávgoustos)
Ancient: Σεβαστός m (Sebastós), Αὔγουστος m (Aúgoustos)
Irish: Ágastas
Italian: Augusto (it) m
Japanese: アウグストゥス (Augusutusu), アウグスツス (Augusutsusu)
Korean: 아우구스투스 (Auguseutuseu)
Latin: Augustus (la) m
Luxembourgish: Augustus m
Marathi: ऑगस्टस (ŏgasṭas)
Portuguese: Augusto (pt) m
Romanian: Augustus (ro) m
Russian: А́вгуст (ru) m (Ávgust)
Spanish: Augusto (es) m

male given name

Catalan: August (ca) m
Danish: August (da)
Faroese: Aggusteinis m
Finnish: Aukusti (fi)
French: Auguste (fr) m
German: August (de) m, Augustus (de)
Greenlandic: Augo
Hungarian: Ágost (hu)
Italian: Augusto (it) m
Latvian: Augusts m
Marathi: ऑगस्टस m (ŏgasṭas)
Norwegian: August (no)
Polish: August (pl) m
Portuguese: Augusto (pt) m
Spanish: Augusto (es) m
Swedish: August (sv)

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

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Noun

Augustus (plural Augustusmaande)

August

Latin

The Roman emperor Augustus, b. 23 September 63 BC, d. 19 August 14 AD

Etymology

From augustus (“majestic, venerable”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈɡus.tus/, [äu̯ˈɡʊs̠t̪ʊs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯ˈɡus.tus/, [äu̯ˈɡust̪us]

Proper noun

Augustus m (genitive Augustī); second declension

Augustus; a Roman agnomen, or "nickname"
Augustus, the Roman emperor

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Augustus	Augustī
Genitive	Augustī	Augustōrum
Dative	Augustō	Augustīs
Accusative	Augustum	Augustōs
Ablative	Augustō	Augustīs
Vocative	Auguste	Augustī

Related terms

Augusta
augustālis
augustāneus
augustēus
augustēum
Augustinus
augustus

Descendants

Descendants of Augustus in other languages

→ Catalan: August
→ Danish: August
- Greenlandic: Aggu
→ English: Augustus, August (given name)
→ Estonian: August
→ Faroese: August
→ Finnish: Aukusti
→ French: Auguste
→ German: August
→ Gothic: 𐌰𐌲𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (agustus)
→ Italian: Augusto
→ Latvian: Augusts
→ Norwegian: August
→ Portuguese: Augusto
→ Spanish: Augusto
→ Swedish: August
- → Finnish: August

References

“Augustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Augustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Augustus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Old English

Alternative forms

Agustus

Etymology

From Latin Augustus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.u.ɡus.tus/, [ˈɑ.u.ɣus.tus]

Proper noun

Augustus m

the Roman emperor Augustus
the month of August

References

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “Augustus”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.