August.
a male given name from Latin
Meaning & usage
a male given name from Latin
Where this word comes from
A shortened form of Latin Augustus, from augustus (“venerable, majestic, exalted”). The Latin adjective is traditionally connected with augeō (“to increase, enlarge”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- (“to increase, grow”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk August, Danish August, Swedish August, Icelandic Ágúst, German August and Finnish Aukusti.
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