📖 Sobre Augusto
Augusto é a forma portuguesa e italiana do antigo nome latino Augustus, derivado de augere ('aumentar, prosperar') e augustus ('venerável, consagrado'). Imortalizado pelo primeiro imperador romano, o nome carregou autoridade imperial ao longo da Idade Média e chegou à península ibérica, onde floresceu durante o período imperial do Brasil no século XIX. Hoje permanece uma escolha distinta e clássica no mundo lusófono.
📍 Detalhes
- OrigemPortuguese, Latin
- Gênero♂ Masculino
- SignificadoGreat, magnificent, venerable
🔀 Variantes e Nomes Relacionados
⭐ Pessoas Famosas
- Augusto dos Anjos — Brazilian symbolist poet (1884–1914), known for his dark, introspective verse blending scientific naturalism with existential anguish. His masterwork Eu (1912) is a landmark of Brazilian literature.
- Augusto Boal — Brazilian theatre director and political activist (1931–2009), founder of the Theatre of the Oppressed, an influential method using drama as a tool for social change and community empowerment.
- Augusto Pinochet — Chilean army general and military dictator (1915–2006) who led the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende and ruled Chile until 1990. A deeply controversial figure in 20th-century Latin American history.
- Augusto Monterroso — Guatemalan writer (1921–2003), master of flash fiction and satire, best known for the one-sentence story 'El dinosaurio.' Widely regarded as one of the great stylists in Latin American literature.
- Augusto Roa Bastos — Paraguayan novelist (1917–2005) and winner of the Cervantes Prize (1989), celebrated for Yo el Supremo, a monumental work on dictatorship and national identity in Latin America.