junho

Forms

junho m (plural junhos)^[1] Old Galician-Portuguese wrote junio, junyo, juyo, jõyo, jũyho, juyho and juynho.^[2][3][4] The spelling junho itself appears in 1284.^[2] Before the 1990 spelling agreement Portugal wrote Junho with a capital.^[1]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin Iūnius (“(the month) of Juno”), written Old Galician-Portuguese junio and Old Galician-Portuguese juyo in the oldest texts.^[2][4][1] The Latin adjective is formed on Iūnō (“Juno”), the goddess.^[5][1] The French historical dictionary also mentions the consul Lucius Junius Brutus as a possible source.^[6]

The same Latin word is Galician xuño, Italian giugno, French juin, Catalan juny and Occitan junh.^[7][1] Spanish junio is a learned form, and Portuguese keeps the inherited form, which in the medieval language was close to that of julho.^[8]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in the testament of Afonso II of 1214: iiijor dias por andar de junio “with four days of June still to run”.^[3][2] Later 13th-century documents write Juyo (1258), Junyo (1261) and Joyo (1279).^[3]

Semantic evolution

Bluteau in 1712 reports the Roman explanations of the name: from junior, the month of the young, as Ovid says, or from Juno, whose temple was dedicated on its first day.^[9] Vieira takes the name probably to mean the month consecrated to Juno.^[10]

The word passed into Kabuverdianu and Guinea-Bissau Creole junhu, Tetum juñu and Konkani.^[1]

Timeline

• 1214 – de junio in the testament of Afonso II.^[3][2]
• 1258 – the form Juyo.^[3]
• 1279 – the form jõyo.^[2][3]
• 1284 – the spelling junho.^[2]
• 1322 – the form juyho.^[2]
• 1416 – junho in the Vida de Santo Aleixo.^[11]
• 1712 – Bluteau discusses the origin of the name.^[9]

Meanings

Noun

1. June, the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, with 30 days: Casaram-se em junho.^[2][12][1]

Related words

• julho
• Latin Iūnius
• Galician xuño
• Spanish junio

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. junho
3. ^ a b c d e f Instituto da Lingua Galega, Dicionario de dicionarios do galego medieval (DDGM), ed. Ernesto González Seoane, Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, https://ilg.usc.gal/ddgm, p. s.v. junio
4. ^ a b Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2010), Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa, 4th ed., Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon, p. s.v. junho
5. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
6. ^ Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert
7. ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter
8. ^ Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1980–1991), Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, 6 vols., Madrid: Gredos, p. 3, 538
9. ^ a b Bluteau, Raphael (1712–1728), Vocabulario portuguez e latino, 8 vols. + 2 supplement vols., Coimbra / Lisboa (CLP transcription, Universidade de Aveiro), p. s.v. junho
10. ^ Vieira, Frei Domingos (1871–1874), Grande Diccionario Portuguez ou Thesouro da lingua portugueza, 5 vols., Porto: Ernesto Chardron e Bartholomeu H. de Moraes, p. 3, 1219
11. ^ Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, CTA – Corpus de Textos Antigos, https://teitok.clul.ul.pt/cta, p. s.v. junho
12. ^ Ferreira, Aurélio Buarque de Holanda, Novo dicionário Aurélio da língua portuguesa, digital edition, p. s.v. junho