Augusta is the feminine form of Augustus, which was originally used as a name and title for the first Roman Emperor, Gaius Octavius, and which eventually passed on as a title to other Roman emperors. It means “majestic, venerable, great” from Latin augere (to increase, augment) which derives from a PIE root word.
Origin: Proto-Indo-European
Variants:
- Auguste (German)
- Avgusta (Slovene)
- Augustina (Ancient Roman, English)
- Augustine (French, German)
- Agostina (Italian)
- Agustina (Spanish)
- Augustyna (Polish)
- Ágústína (Icelandic)
- Augustîna (Greenlandic)
- August (English)
Male forms:
- Augustus (Ancient Roman, Dutch, English)
- Augustinus (Ancient Roman)
- Augustine (English)
- August (German, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Catalan, English)
- Aukusti (Finnish)
- Auguste (French)
- Augusto (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese)
- Augusts (Latvian)
- Augustas (Lithuanian)
- Augustinas (Lithuanian)
- Avgust (Slovene, Russian, Ukrainian)
- Augustin (French, Czech, Romanian, Croatian, German)
- Augustín (Slovak, Czech)
- Agustí (Catalan)
- Augustijn (Dutch)
- Austin (English)
- Austen (English)
- Austyn (English)
- Ágoston (Hungarian)
- Agostino (Italian)
- Augustyn (Polish)
- Agostinho (Portuguese)
- Avguštin (Slovak)
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