Translation
June
Word origin
From Latin Iunius, the month named for the goddess Iuno (Juno). Esperanto keeps the Latin month names unchanged apart from the noun ending.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- Iunius
- English cognates
- June, Juno
Other proposed origins
- Ovid records a second Roman account in which Iunius is the month of the iuniores, the younger men, paired with Maius for the elders. (Latin, iuniores)
Examples
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School finishes in June.
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June brings the long days of summer.
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I will visit you in June.
Junio is the sixth month page the site has built, joining , , , and ; lands in this same chapter, which makes seven of the twelve, with , , , and still to come. Two habits to pick up now. Month names are common nouns in Esperanto and take a small letter, so it is and not . And resist reading the month as "the young one" by analogy with : on the usual account the month belongs to Juno, and only the minority explanation given above puts the two words in the same family.
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