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Agosto is Italian for August, from Latin Augustus; in an act it reads addì venti del mese di agosto, on August 20.
Agosto is August, from Latin Augustus through a spoken form agustus. The given name Augusto comes from the same word. In acts it follows the day and del mese di: addì venti del mese di agosto, on the twentieth of August. The abbreviation is ago.
When only the first letters are clear, agosto can be confused with aprile, April. The words around it may help: the act number and the dates of entries before and after it run in order through the year.
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