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See also: june
English
Pronunciation
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, containing the northern solstice.
- Alternative forms: Jun, Jun., JUN, 6
- Synonym: (Quakerism) Sixth Month
- Holonyms: calendar year; year
- Comeronyms: January, February, March, April, May, July, August, September, October, November, December
- 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.
- 2023 September 19, Laura He, “China woos Tesla, JP Morgan and other Western companies as foreign investment slumps”, in CNN Business:
- Direct investment liabilities, a measure of FDI reflected in a country’s balance of payments, fell to just $4.9 billion in the April to June months, down 87% from a year earlier, according to data published by SAFE last month. That was the lowest amount in any quarter since records began in 1998.
- 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
- Juneberry
- June Bootids
- June bug
- June cold
- June Days, June Days Uprising
- June drop
- June gloom
- June grass
- June List
- June Movement
- 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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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.
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Danish
Etymology
Proper noun
June
- a female given name
Fijian
Proper noun
June
See also
Middle English
Proper noun
June
- alternative form of Juno
Norwegian
Etymology
Proper noun
June
- a female given name
Related terms
Romanian
Etymology
From june (“young”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
June m (genitive/dative lui June)
- a surname
References
- Iordan, Iorgu (1983), Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names], Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică
Tagalog
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒun/ [ˈd͡ʒʊn̪]
- Rhymes: -un
- Syllabification: June
Proper noun
June (Baybayin spelling ᜇ᜔ᜌᜓᜈ᜔)
- a female given name from English
Tongan
Pronunciation
[tʃu.ne]
Proper noun
June
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