Avgust

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Avgust is a male given name.

Russian name

In Russian, Avgust (Russian: А́вгуст or Авгу́ст) is a male given name.[1] Its feminine versions are Avgusta[2] and Avgustina.[3] The name is derived from the Latin word augustus, which means majestic,[2] but originally meant devoted to an augur (a priest who practiced augury, interpreting the will of the gods by studying the flight of birds).[1]

The name was included into various, often handwritten, church calendars throughout the 17th–19th centuries, but was omitted from the official Synodal Menologium at the end of the 19th century.[4] In 1924–1930, the name was included into various Soviet calendars,[4] 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.[5]

Its diminutives include Ava (А́ва),[1] Gutya (Гу́тя),[1] Gusta (Гу́ста),[2] Gustya (Гу́стя),[2] and Gustey (Густе́й).[6]

The patronymics derived from "Avgust" are "А́вгустович" (Avgustovich; masculine) and "А́вгустовна" (Avgustovna; feminine).[2]

"Avgust" is also a colloquial form of the given name Avgustin.[2]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Superanskaya [1], p. 21
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Petrovsky, p. 32
  3. ↑ Nikonov, p. 63
  4. 1 2 Superanskaya [2], pp. 23 and 31
  5. ↑ Toronto Slavic Quarterly. Елена Душечкина. "Мессианские тенденции в советской антропонимической практике 1920-х - 1930-х годов" (Russian)
  6. ↑ Superanskaya [2], p. 31

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