French

Proper noun

Auguste

1. Augustus , the Roman emperor.
2. A male given name.

German

Proper noun

Auguste

1. A female given name, cognate to Augusta.

Latin

Noun

Auguste

1. vocative singular of Augustus

English

Noun

auguste ‎(plural augustes)

1. (theater) A kind of clown.
   • 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F (Penguin 2004), page 93:

     It had been used for clownish mock-disappearences, one auguste looking for another through endlessly circling blackness, an apparatus not now much in use.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oɡyst/

Etymology 1

Borrowing from Latin augustus. Doublet of août.

Adjective

auguste m, f ‎(plural augustes)

1. august; noble, stately

Etymology 2

From German (dumme) August.

Noun

auguste m ‎(plural augustes)

1. A type of clown with a white makeup.

Italian

Adjective

auguste

1. Feminine plural form of augusto

Latin

Adjective

auguste

1. vocative masculine singular of augustus

References

• auguste in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• auguste in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “auguste”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Novial

Etymology

A root word. Root: august-. Morphemes: august- + -e (2).

Noun

auguste ‎(plural augustes)

1. August

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