English

Proper noun

Augusta

1. A female given name.
   • 1993, Margaret Atwood, Robber Bride, Virago Press (2013), ISBN 9781853817229, page 48:

     August, Charis named her, because that's when she was born. Warm breezes, baby powder, languorous heat, the smell of mown hay. Such a soft name. Too soft for her daughter, who has added an a. Augusta, she is now — a very different resonance. Marble statues, Roman noses, tight-lipped commanding mouths.

2. The capital city of the state of Maine in the United States of America.
3. A city in Arkansas
4. A city in east central Georgia, USA also see Disgusta.
5. A village in Illinois
6. A city in Kansas
7. A city in Kentucky
8. A village in Michigan
9. A city in Missouri
10. A census-designated place in Montana
11. A town in New York
12. A township in Ontario
13. A town in Sicily
14. A town in Western Australia
15. A city in Wisconsin
16. A male given name

Translations

Danish

Proper noun

Augusta

1. A female given name of Latin origin.

Faroese

Proper noun

Augusta f

1. A female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Augusta: Augustuson
• daughter of Augusta: Augustudóttir

Declension

German

Proper noun

Augusta

1. A female given name of Latin origin.

Italian

Proper noun

Augusta ?

1. Augsburg
2. A female given name

Derived terms

• augustano

Latin

Etymology

Feminine form of Augustus.

Proper noun

Augusta f ‎(genitive Augustae); first declension

1. An honorific title given to the wives of Roman Emperors
2. (geography) The name of a town, such as Augusta Taurinorum (modern day Turin) or Augusta Vindelicorum (modern day Augsburg)

Inflection

The dative is also found as Augustal. First declension.

References

Augusta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Augusta”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Portuguese

Proper noun

Augusta f

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Augusta
2. Augusta (a city, the state capital of Maine, United States of America)

Swedish

Proper noun

Augusta

1. A female given name of Latin origin.

Italian

Adjective

augusta

1. feminine singular of augusto

Latin

Verb

augustā

1. first-person singular present active imperative of augustō

References

• AUGUSTA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• augusta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• augusta in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• augusta in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Latvian

Noun

augusta m

1. genitive singular form of augusts