auguste

See also: Auguste

English

Etymology

From French auguste, from German (dumme) August.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʊˈɡuːst/, /ɔːˈɡuːst/, /ɔːˈɡəst/, /-(ˈ)ɡʊst/

Noun

auguste (plural augustes)

1. (theater) A kind of clown, usually serving as an anarchic foil to the whiteface.
   • 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 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.

References

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Auguste”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.ɡyst/

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin augustus. Doublet of août, which was inherited.

Adjective

auguste (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

Further reading

• “auguste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Adjective

auguste

1. feminine plural 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
• “auguste”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.