Etymology

From algama +‎ -usCategory:Estonian terms suffixed with -us#ALGUS.

Noun

algus (genitive alguse, partitive algust)Category:Estonian lemmas#ALGUSCategory:Estonian nouns#ALGUSCategory:Estonian entries with incorrect language header#ALGUSCategory:Pages with entries#ALGUSCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ALGUS

1. beginning

Further reading

• “algus”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Etymology

Related to algeō.

Noun

algus m (genitive algūs)Category:Latin lemmas#ALGUSCategory:Latin nouns#ALGUSCategory:Latin fourth declension nouns#ALGUSCategory:Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension#ALGUSCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#ALGUSCategory:Latin masculine nouns#ALGUSCategory:Pages with entries#ALGUSCategory:Pages with 2 entries#ALGUS; fourth declension

1. the subjective feeling of the cold, coldness
2. (Old LatinCategory:Old Latin lemmas#ALGUS) coldness (uncomfortably so)

   Synonym: algor

References

• “algus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press