iuncus
Latin
Alternative forms
- juncus
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *joinikos, dubiously derived from a Proto-Indo-European *yoy-ni- with Middle Irish ain (“rushes, reeds”) and Old Norse einir (“juniper”) equated with Latin iūniperus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈi̯un.kus/, [ˈi̯ʊŋkʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈjun.kus/, [ˈjuŋkus]
Noun
iuncus m (genitive iuncī); second declension
- rush, reed
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | iuncus | iuncī |
Genitive | iuncī | iuncōrum |
Dative | iuncō | iuncīs |
Accusative | iuncum | iuncōs |
Ablative | iuncō | iuncīs |
Vocative | iunce | iuncī |
Derived terms
- iunceus
Descendants
- Catalan: jonc
- Italian: giunco
- Old French: jonc
- Middle French: jonc
- French: jonc
- → Middle English: jonk, jonke, jounke, joynk, junck, junk (probably)
- English: junk
- Middle French: jonc
- Old Portuguese: junco
- Galician: xunco
- Portuguese: junco
- Spanish: junco
- → English: junco
- → Translingual: Junco
- → Translingual: Juncus
- → English: juncus
References
- “iuncus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- iuncus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)