iuncus
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Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈi̯un.kus/, [ˈi̯ʊŋkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈjun.kus/, [ˈjuŋkus]
Noun[edit]
iuncus m (genitive iuncī); second declension
Declension[edit]
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[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Catalan: jonc
- Italian: giunco
- Old French: jonc
- Old Galician-Portuguese: junco
- Spanish: junco
- → Translingual: Juncus
- → English: juncus
References[edit]
- “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)