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Old English word for august

4 headwords match “august”, ranked by the scoring in the data pipeline. The five strongest follow; Augustusmonaþ ranks first.

  1. 1

    Augustusmonaþ

    score 15

    noun, masculine · strong consonant stem · 9 inflected forms

    august — August

    • opens the headword's definition
    • has a full inflection table
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular Augustusmōnaþ
    genitive singular Augustusmōnaþes, Augustusmōnþes
    dative singular Augustusmōnaþ, Augustusmōnþe
    accusative singular Augustusmōnaþ
    nominative plural Augustusmōnaþ, Augustusmōnþas
    genitive plural Augustusmōnaþa, Augustusmōnþa
  2. 2

    hlafmæsse

    score 4

    noun, neuter

    august — Lammas (the first day of August)

    • appears in the definition
  3. 3

    weodmonaþ

    score 3

    noun, masculine

    august — the eighth month of the year according to the Anglo-Saxon calendar

  4. 4

    Augustus

    score 1

    proper noun, masculine · strong a-stem · 3 inflected forms

    august — the Roman emperor Augustus

    • appears in the definition
    • has a full inflection table
    • proper noun
    Paradigm summary
    nominative singular Augustus
    genitive singular Augustuses
    dative singular Augustuse
    accusative singular Augustus

How this ranking works

Scores are computed once, when the site is built, from the Wiktionary data. Every headword whose definitions mention “august” gets the points below; the candidates are then sorted by total. The score is shown on each entry above so the order can be checked rather than trusted.

The English word opens the headword's definition+10
It appears later in the first definition+6
It appears in any definition+3
It is in the headword's links+2
It is listed as an English descendant (etymological evidence)+9
The headword has an inflection table+3
Part of speech is a proper noun−5
Part of speech is a verb (-ian derivations are noisy)−3
The headword is an alternative form−6
The first definition is longer than three words−2

A candidate has to be a real headword with its own entry: inflected forms and grammatical terminology (genitive, nominative, preterite, …) never appear here.

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