Avgust is a male
given name
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.
Russian name
In
Russian
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*A citizen of Russia
*Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages
*''The Russians'', a b ...
, Avgust ( or ) is a male given name.
[Superanskaya p. 21] Its feminine versions are
Avgusta[Petrovsky, p. 32] and
Avgustina.
[Nikonov, p. 63] The name is derived from the
Latin
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word ''augustus'', which means ''majestic'',
but originally meant ''devoted to an
augur
An augur was a priest and official in the ancient Rome, classical Roman world. His main role was the practice of augury, the interpretation of the will of the List of Roman deities, gods by studying events he observed within a predetermined s ...
'' (a priest who practiced
augury
Augury was a Greco- Roman religious practice of observing the behavior of birds, to receive omens. When the individual, known as the augur, read these signs, it was referred to as "taking the auspices". "Auspices" () means "looking at birds". ...
, interpreting the will of the gods by studying the flight of birds).
The name was included into various, often handwritten, church calendars throughout the 17th–19th centuries, but was omitted from the official
Synod
A synod () is a council of a Christian denomination, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application. The word '' synod'' comes from the Ancient Greek () ; the term is analogous with the Latin word . Originally, ...
al
Menologium
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at the end of the 19th century.
[Superanskaya pp. 22, 23, and 31] In 1924–1930, the name was included into various Soviet calendars,
which included the new and often artificially created names promoting the new Soviet realities and encouraging the break with the tradition of using the names in the Synodal Menologia.
Toronto Slavic Quarterly
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. Елена Душечкина.
Мессианские тенденции в советской антропонимической практике 1920-х - 1930-х годов
Its
diminutive
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s include Ava (),
Gutya (),
Gusta (),
Gustya (),
and Gustey ().
[Superanskaya p. 31]
The
patronymic
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. It is the male equivalent of a matronymic.
Patronymics are used, b ...
s derived from "Avgust" are "" (''Avgustovich''; masculine) and "" (''Avgustovna''; feminine).
"Avgust" is also a colloquial form of the given name
Avgustin.
People with the name
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Avgust Černigoj
Avgust Černigoj, also known in Italian as Augusto Cernigoi (August 24, 1898 – November 17, 1985), was a Yugoslav-era Slovenian painter known for his avant-garde experiments in Constructivism.
Biography
He was born in Trieste, to a Sloven ...
(1898–1985), Slovenian/Yugoslavian painter, avant-garde experimenter in Constructivism
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Avgust Demšar
Tomaž Zupančič, better known under his pen name Avgust Demšar, (born 1962 in Maribor) is a Slovenian writer who specialises in detective fiction
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an criminal inve ...
, (born 1962), Slovenian detective fiction writer
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Avgust Ipavec (born 1940), Slovenian composer and priest
*Avgust Pavel, Slovenian spelling of the name of
Ágoston Pável (born 1886), Hungarian Slovene writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist, and historian
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Avgust Pirjevec (1887–1944), Slovene literary scholar, lexicographer, and librarian
*
Avgust Tsivolko (1810–1839), Russian navigator and Arctic explorer
See also
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August (disambiguation)
August is the eighth month of the year.
August may also refer to:
People
*August (name), including lists of people with the given name or surname
Culture Film and television
*August (1996 film), ''August'' (1996 film), an adaptation of Anton C ...
*
Avguštine
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Sebastian (name)
Sebastian or Sebastián is both a given name and a surname.
It comes from the Greek language, Greek name ''Sebastianos'' (Σεβαστιανός) meaning "from Sebastia" (Σεβάστεια), which was the name of the city now known as Sivas, loc ...
References
Notes
Sources
*Н. А. Петровский (N. A. Petrovsky). "Словарь русских личных имён" (''Dictionary of Russian First Names''). ООО Издательство "АСТ". Москва, 2005.
*В. А. Никонов (V. A. Nikonov). "Ищем имя" (''Looking for a Name''). Изд. "Советская Россия". Москва, 1988.
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А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Современный словарь личных имён: Сравнение. Происхождение. Написание" (''Modern Dictionary of First Names: Comparison. Origins. Spelling''). Айрис-пресс. Москва, 2005.
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А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Словарь русских имён" (''Dictionary of Russian Names''). Издательство Эксмо. Москва, 2005. {{ISBN, 5-699-14090-5
Russian masculine given names
Masculine given names
Slovene masculine given names
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