June
See also: june
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: jo͞on, IPA(key): /d͡ʒuːn/, /d͡ʒjuːn/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːn
Etymology 1
From Middle English June, june, re-Latinised variants of earlier Middle English Juyn, juyng, from Old French juing, juin, from Latin iūnius, the month of the goddess Iuno (“Juno”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu (“vital force, youthful vigor”).
Proper noun
June (plural Junes)
- The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July. Abbreviation: Jun or Jun.
- This glad June day.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
- A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English], for a girl born in June, used since the end of the 19th century.
- 2002, Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 29:
- Her parents were old, really old. That's why they'd given her such an old-fashioned name. June, because she was born in June. If she'd been born in November would they have called her November? June was a name for women in sitcoms and soap operas, the name of women who knit with synthetic wool and follow recipes that use cornflakes, not the name of a thirty-year-old with a ring in her nose ('Oh, June'.)
Derived terms
- bird of June
- June-apple
- June beetle
- Juneberry
- June Bootids
- June bug
- June cold
- June Days, June Days Uprising
- June drop
- June gloom
- June grass
- June List
- June Movement
- June solstice
- June sucker
- Juneteenth
- June War
- June Week
- Junie
- mid-June
Descendants
- Bislama: jun
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Juun
- Tok Pisin: Jun
- → Assamese: জুন (zun)
- → Bengali: জুন (jun)
- → Burmese: ဇွန် (jwan)
- → Chichewa: Juni
- → Dari: جون (jun)
- → Hausa: Yuni
- → Hawaiian: Iune
- → Hindi: जून (jūn)
- → Malay: Jun
- → Maori: Hune
- → Marshallese: Juun
- → Swahili: Juni
- → Tokelauan: Iuni
- → Tongan: Sune
- → Zulu: uJuni
Translations
sixth month of the Gregorian calendar
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See also
Etymology 2
Short for junior.
Proper noun
June
- A male given name, or more often nickname, for a boy who is junior to someone else, especially someone with the same name, such as his father.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:June.
Fijian
Middle English
Norwegian
Related terms
Romanian
Etymology
From june (“young”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʒu.ne/
References
- Iordan, Iorgu (1983) Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names], Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒun/, [ˈd͡ʒun]
Tongan
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