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語源

From Proto-Italic *augostos (“amplified, increased, augmented, strengthened”), from *augos (“an increase, augmentation”) +‎ *-tos, an old neuter s-stem formed to the root of Latin augeō (“to increase, enlarge”). Its descendant appears in Classical Latin as augur, auguris with shifted gender/sense ("augur") and levelling of the -r-.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [au̯ˈɡʊs.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [au̯ˈɡus.tus]

形容詞

augustus (feminine augusta, neuter augustum, comparative augustior, superlative augustissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. august, solemn, majestic, venerable
2. alternative letter-case form of Augustus

使用する際の注意点

• Originally a word of religious use, but given as a title to the emperor Augustus.

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

関連する語

参考

• Augustus

参照

Further reading

• “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 Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “augustus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “augustus”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “augustus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “augustus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “augustus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin