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Augustn. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin Augustus; French august. Etymology: Originally < classical Latin Augustus, Agustus (see below); in later use (especially in β. forms) also < Anglo-Norman august, aougost, Anglo-Norman and Old French augst, aoust, aust (1119 in Anglo-Norman; Middle French aoust, aust, French août ) < classical Latin Augustus (also Agustus), use as noun (short for mēnsis Augustus month of August) of masculine of Augustus of August < Augustus , title given to Octavius Caesar when he attained supreme power < augustus august adj. Compare Old Occitan aost (1140; also agost (1254)), Catalan agost (early 13th cent.), Spanish agosto (late 11th cent.), Portuguese agosto (a1230), Italian agosto (early 13th cent.); Middle Dutch oweste, auguste (Dutch augustus, †ougst, †aust; compare oogst harvest), Middle Low German ouwest, augst, aust August, harvest, Middle High German ougeste, ouwest, augst, aust, augustō August (German August, †Augst, in latter form also in sense ‘harvest’), Old Swedish augusta manadt, Swedish augusti (16th cent.).In the ancient Roman calendar this was the sixth month and thus called Sextīlis (see sextile adj.); it was renamed in 8 b.c. to honour Augustus because several of the most significant events in his rise to power, culminating in the fall of Alexandria, had happened in that month. In Old English and Middle English texts Latin Augustus (and variants) is often used for the month (in Old English sometimes alongside the vernacular names Wēodmōnað and Hærfest harvest n.), e.g.:OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1013 On þissum ilcan geare toforan þæm monðe Augustus com Swegen cyning mid his flotan to Sandwic.OE Menologium 139 Þæs symle scriþ ymb seofon niht þæs sumere gebrihted Weodmonað on tun, wel hwæt [read welhwær] bringeð Agustus yrmenþeodum hlafmæssan dæg. ▸ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 125 The eightþe moneþ hatte augustus & haþ þat name augustus of August þe Emperour.a1450 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe i. §10.5. l. 21 The names of the monthes..Junius, Julius, Augustus..Augustus Cesar clepid the month of August after his name and ordeined it of 31 daies. Compare also Old English Agustusmōnað , Augustusmōnað ( < classical Latin Agustus , Augustus (see above) + month n.1):OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) iii. 44 Ðu scealt ðonne eac gewyrcean þa wyrt on Agustus monðe. the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > specific months > [noun] > August OE tr. (1995) §10. 230 Ða ferde we in Agustes monþe þurh þa weallendan sond. lOE (Laud) anno 1097 He..þærinne [sc. into Wealon] wunode fram middesumeran forneah oð August. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) viii. l. 2845 Til Augst be passed and Septembre. c1400 (?c1380) l. 39 In augoste in a hyȝ seysoun. 1417 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt (1931) 288 (MED) Yeuen vnder owr signet..þe xij day of Aoust. a1500 (?c1450) 132 It was feire wedir..as stille as a-boute aust. 1529 Bp. S. Gardiner 30 Aug. (1933) 33 At Woodstock, the penultimate of August. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. i. 110 The tenth of August last. View more context for this quotation 1731 P. Miller I. at Cepa About the Beginning of August the Onion-Seed will be ripe, which may be known by its changing brown. 1870 W. Morris I. ii. 551 And August came the fainting year to mend With fruit and grain. 1932 9 July 1 The next session begins from 1st August, 1932. 2006 (National ed.) 1 Nov. a10/2 Gen. John P. Abizaid..warned publicly in August about the risk of civil war in Iraq. Compounds1552 R. Huloet August moneth. 1686 H. Grenfield 111 Augment the Brightness of an August day. 1799 R. Warner (ed. 3) 35 The exercise of walking twenty-five miles under an August sun, had rendered us exceedingly thirsty. 1867 M. E. Braddon II. v. 73 When the August weather was brightest and balmiest. 1884 May 883/1 The August moon hangs o'er the waves. 1918 D. M. Wright 39 There came a pattering of feet like August showers. 2006 Aug. 120/1 Common August butterflies include the smaller golden skippers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). augustadj.  Brit.  /ɔːˈɡʌst/, U.S. /ɔˈɡəst/, /ɑˈɡəst/, /ˈɔɡəst/, /ˈɑɡəst/Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French auguste; Latin augustus. Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French auguste (of a person) worthy of respect, venerable (a1407), (of a thing) stately, majestic (second half of the 15th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin augustus solemn, venerable, worthy of honour, majestic, dignified, probably < augur augur n.1 + -tus , suffix forming adjectives; perhaps influenced in use by association with augēre to increase (see auge v.).Compare Spanish augusto (14th cent.), Portuguese augusto (first half of the 16th cent.), Italian augusto (first half of the 16th cent.; 14th cent. as agosto). the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > [adjective] 1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy iv. f. 45 His Maiestie was highly exalted, and magnificently adorned with august [Fr. auguste] and venerable aucthoritie. 1646 tr. 4 Others have rendered the name of our King August and venerable unto all Nations. 1656 J. H. tr. 27 I supplicate this august Assembly [Fr. cet Auguste Senat], that here it may be deliberated, how to [etc.]. 1673 J. Dryden v. i. 84 Since he is a King..he looks so grand, and so August. 1748 L. Pilkington III. 87 You kindly pleaded in my behalf..to the royal Offspring of our august Monarch. 1788 E. Gibbon V. 151 They respectfully saluted the august Charlemagne with the acclamations of basileus, and emperor of the Romans. 1821 Ld. Byron Two Foscari iv. i, in 259 To mingle with a body so august. 1860 R. C. Trench xiv. 152 We have a human sufferer in Him—the augustest indeed that ever shared our flesh and blood. 1904 H. H. Skinner 40 I would happily relax my hold if you honorably promise to accompany me to my august superior whom I unworthily serve. 1973 5 May 994/1 The Royal Society and other august bodies. 2014 (Nexis) 23 Aug. 17 One would have expected from such an august personage a little more common sense and understanding. the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > [adjective] > specifically of things or ideas 1602 J. Colville 30 No thing being more august magnifique or venerable befor God and amang men no thing more firm and stabill nor [i.e. than] the church of God. 1664 H. More 486 The ancient Philosophers look'd upon this Universe as one August Temple of God. 1712 J. Addison No. 414. ¶4 There is generally in Nature something more Grand and August, than what we meet with in the Curiosities of Art. 1795 E. Burke Let. in (1842) II. 244 Never was so beautiful and so august a spectacle presented to the moral eye. 1855 T. B. Macaulay IV. 534 The funeral was long remembered as the saddest and most august that Westminster had ever seen. 1869 J. Martineau 2nd Ser. 149 [It] renews its ancient glance with an auguster beauty. 1913 1 Apr. 9/2 Now the august ritual of burial, so often heard in St. Paul's in honour of great men,..begins its slow evolution. 1967 H. Chadwick xv. 235 Quicunque Vult, which soon (if not from the start) passed under the august title of the Creed of St. Athanasius. 2008 B. Doherty vi. 110 Little open emotion was evident in the august halls of the Court. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † augustv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: August n. Etymology: < August n., perhaps after augusted adj.Compare French aoûter to ripen (1606 as aouster). Obsolete. rare. the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (transitive)] > mature 1855 P. J. Bailey 55 He for..dear nations toiled, And augusted man's heavenly hopes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < |
