augites

== English == === Noun === augites plural of augite == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐγῑ́της (augī́tēs, “a precious stone”), probably from αὖγος (aûgos, “morning light, dawn”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [au̯ˈɡiː.teːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [au̯ˈd͡ʒiː.tes] === Noun === augītēs m (genitive augītae); first declension A kind of precious stone, often thought to be turquoise ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs). ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: augita Galician: auxita Portuguese: augite Spanish: augita === References === “augites”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “augites”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “augites”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers