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Middle English Augustder.

English August

Early Middle English August(us), re-Latinized from Old English Agustus, from Late Latin Agustus, from Latin augustus (“month of August”), from the agnomen Augustus (“venerable”) of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, possibly from either Old Latin *augos (“increase”), from Proto-Italic *augos, from Proto-Indo-European base *h₂ewg- (“to increase”); or Latin avis (“bird”), referring to divination by observing bird flights, singing, feeding or entrails + garrīre (“to chatter”). Doublet of august and Augustus

August (plural Augusts)

  1. The eighth month of the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, following July and preceding September.
    Alternative forms: Aug, Aug., AUG, 8
    Synonym: (Quakerism) Eighth Month
    Holonyms: calendar year; year
    Comeronyms: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, September, October, November, December
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
      The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: […] .
    • 2025 July 17, John Towfighi, “Copper prices have surged to record highs — and they could jump higher. Here’s why”, in CNN Business‎[1], archived from the original on 17 August 2025:
      Trump’s July 8 announcement of a 50% tariff on copper imports beginning August 1 sent prices surging 13% in one day, up to a record high of $5.69 per pound.
  2. (now rare) A female given name from English derived from the month (of birth).
    • 1993, Margaret Atwood, Robber Bride, Virago Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 48:
      August, Charis named her, because that's when she was born. Warm breezes, baby powder, languorous heat, the smell of mown hay. Such a soft name. Too soft for her daughter, who has added an a. Augusta, she is now — a very different resonance. Marble statues, Roman noses, tight-lipped commanding mouths.
    • 2018, George Beahm, editor, Mark Zuckerberg: In His Own Words‎[2], Agate Publishing, →ISBN:
      AUGUST[ 2017]: [Mark] Zuckerberg and [Priscilla] Chan's second daughter, August, is born.

eighth month of the Gregorian calendar

In some cases a month name from English. In other cases inspired by the common German given name August, from Latin Augustus.

August

  1. A male given name from Latin.
    • 1974, Witi Ihimaera, Whanau, Heinemann, page 76:
      Thirteen year old August is the eldest; he begins to pull the kite downward. Like his sister and brother, June and July, he has been named after the month in which he was born.
  2. A surname from Latin.
  3. A census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California, United States.

August m

  1. Augustus

From Latin Augustus.

August

  1. a male given name, feminine equivalent Augusta

From Latin Augustus.

August

  1. a male given name

Borrowed from German August.

August

  1. August (month)
    Coordinate term: (native term) Dasiamime

From Latin Augustus.

August m

  1. a male given name

Patronymics

| | singular | | | ----------- | ------- | | indefinite | | | nominative | August | | accusative | August | | dative | Augusti | | genitive | Augusts |

From Swedish August, from Latin Augustus.[1]

August

  1. a male given name
  1. ^ Kustaa Vilkuna (2005) [1976], Pirjo Mikkonen, editor, Etunimet, 4th edition, Helsinki: Otava, published 2011, →ISBN

Learned borrowing from Latin Augustus.

August m (strong, genitive **August or Augusts or Augustes, plural Auguste)

  1. August (month)
    Synonyms: (archaic) Ährenmonat; (archaic) Erntemonat; (archaic) Erntemond; (archaic) Ernting; (archaic) Sichelmonat

August m (proper noun, strong, genitive Augusts or **August)

  1. a male given name, feminine equivalent Augusta or Auguste, equivalent to English Augustus

transliterations of the German male given name August

Borrowed from German August.[1] Doublet of Aagust.

August m (plural **August)

  1. August

August m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Augustus

  2. ^ Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “August”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 15, column 1

From German August.

August m

  1. August

Ultimately from Latin augustus.

August m

  1. (Sylt) August
    Synonym: Bārichtmuun

From Latin Augustus.

August

  1. a male given name

From Latin Augustus.

August

  1. a male given name

August m

  1. August (month)

Learned borrowing from Latin Augustus.

August m pers (female equivalent Augusta)

  1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Augustus

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

August f

  1. genitive plural of Augusta

Early Middle English August(us), re-Latinized from Old English Agustus, from Late Latin Agustus, from Latin augustus (“month of August”), from the agnomen Augustus (“venerable”) of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus.

August

  1. August (month)

From Augustín.

August m pers

  1. hypocoristic form of Augustín

From Latin Augustus.

August c (genitive Augusts)

  1. a male given name, feminine equivalent Augusta