Juliet

Juliet

See also: juliet

Translingual

Noun

Juliet

1. Misspelling of Juliett from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Giulietta, diminutive of Giulia, from Latin Iūlia, feminine of Iūlius, a Roman family name. Cognate with French Juliette.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒuːlɪɛt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌd͡ʒuliˈɛt/, /ˈd͡ʒuliət/
• Rhymes: (US) -ɛt

Proper noun

Juliet

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • 1977, Timothy Findley, The Wars, Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence, →ISBN, page 110:

     "All I ask," she says, fitting the cigarette into a holder, "is that you don't call me Juli-et. I cannot abide Juli-et. It maddens me!" "Yes, ma'am." "Here, we say Joolyut. Joolyut. Joolyut. Say it for me."

2. One of the main characters of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:

     For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

3. A woman who is or is with a great lover.
4. By analogy with the Shakespearean character, a woman who is in love with a man from a family, party, or country opposing that of her own.
5. (astronomy) The sixth moon of the planet Uranus.

Derived terms

• Juliet cap
• Juliet sleeve

Translations

female given name

French: Juliette (fr) f Galician: Xulieta (gl) Hungarian: Júlia (hu) Icelandic: Júlía (is) f Italian: Giulietta (it) f Polish: Julita (pl) f Portuguese: Julieta (pt) f Spanish: Julieta (es) f

character in Romeo and Juliet

Arabic: جُولْيِيت‎ f (jūlyēt), جُولْيِت‎ f (jūlyit) Catalan: Julieta f Chinese: Cantonese: 朱麗葉, 朱丽叶 (zyu1 lai6 jip6) Mandarin: 朱麗葉／朱丽叶 (zh) (Zhūlìyè) Danish: Julie Dutch: Julia (nl) f Finnish: Julia (fi) French: Juliette (fr) f Galician: Xulieta (gl) f German: Julia (de) f Greek: Ιουλιέτα (el) f (Iouliéta) Hebrew: יוּלְיָה‎ f (Yúlya) Hindi: जूलियट f (jūliyaṭ) Hungarian: Júlia (hu) Italian: Giulietta (it) f Japanese: ジュリエット (ja) (Jurietto) Korean: 줄리엣 (Julliet) Macedonian: Јулија f (Julija) Norwegian: Julie (no) f Polish: Julia (pl) f Portuguese: Julieta (pt) f Russian: Джулье́тта (ru) f (Džulʹjétta) Spanish: Julieta (es) f Swedish: Julia (sv) c Turkish: Juliet, Jülyet (colloquial)

moon of Uranus

Galician: Xulieta (gl) Japanese: ジュリエット (ja) (Jurietto) Polish: Julia (pl) f

See also

• Romeo
• Juliett
• Capulet
• Montague

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Etymology

From English Juliet, from Italian Giulietta, diminutive form of Giulia (“Julia”), from Julius, a Roman family name.

Proper noun

Juliet

1. a female given name from Latin
2. one of the main characters of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet
3. (astronomy) the sixth moon of the planet Uranus