Translation
August
Word origin
From Latin Augustus, the title the Roman senate gave Octavian, who then had the month Sextilis renamed after himself. The adjective augustus meant venerable or consecrated, from augere ('to increase').
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- Augustus
- English cognates
- August, august, augment
Examples
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In August we will go to the sea.
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August is the hottest month here.
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She was born on a warm day in August.
Five of the twelve months now have pages here, , , , and this one, which is simply the order the frequency list hands them over rather than any calendar logic. The rest arrive in the bands above. Two mechanical points: months are ordinary common nouns in Esperanto and take a small letter, and the is one syllable, so -gus-to has three beats and not four.
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