Etymology and origin of the Romanian word iulie
- Confidence
- Established
- Formation
- Borrowing
- First attested
- 1522 Slavonic–Romanian charter More words from the 16th century
- Borrowed from
- Old Church Slavonic июлии
- Ultimate origin
- Latin Iūlius
Pronunciation
- /ˈjulije/[1]
Forms
iulie m (uncountable)[1] A variant iuliu, newer and rarer, is taken from Latin.[2][3] In Bukovina and Transylvania the form iuli was used, after German Juli.[4][5] An almanac of 1733 has „La Iulie cald și frumos” “in July, warm and fine”.[4]
Etymology
It is borrowed from Old Church Slavonic июлии (ijulii), the month name of the Slavonic church calendar.[5][6][1][7] Ciorănescu and Tiktin add Greek as a source beside the Slavonic.[2][8] The Slavonic word comes from Byzantine Greek Ἰούλιος (Ioúlios), from Latin Iūlius (“(the month) of Julius”).[1] Scriban explains the Latin name as the month named after Julius Caesar.[3] Pascu derives Aromanian iul'u from the same Greek word.[9] The Romance languages kept the Latin word: Italian luglio, French juillet, Spanish julio and Portuguese julho.[3]
Earliest recorded meaning
Tiktin dates the word to 1522, a record in the Slavonic–Romanian documents, and Ciorănescu to the 16th century.[8][2] MDA2's first record in a Romanian book is the Paraclis of 1639, and Ureche's chronicle dates events to the first day of July.[5][4]
Semantic evolution
The word has always named the seventh month of the year.[6][4] The popular name for the same month is cuptor “oven”, and the dictionaries from Șăineanu and CADE on give both.[6][10][11] The Lexicon de la Buda of 1825 glosses it with cuptoriu and with Hungarian Szent Jakab hava and German Heumonath.[12]
Timeline
- 1522 – a Slavonic–Romanian document.[8]
- 1639 – the Paraclis, the first record in a Romanian book.[5]
- 1733 – „La Iulie cald și frumos” in an almanac.[4]
- 1825 – the Lexicon de la Buda, with cuptoriu.[12]
Meanings
Noun
Related words
- cuptor
- Aromanian iul'u
Usage notes
The word does not change for case: the genitive is lui iulie.[13] It is abbreviated iul.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
- ^ a b c Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001), p. s.v. iulie
- ^ a b c Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 665
- ^ a b c d e Academia Română (1913–1949), Dicționarul limbii române (DA), ed. Sextil Pușcariu, tom I (A–B, C, D–De) and tom II (F–I, J–Lojniță), București: Socec / Universul / Monitorul Oficial și Imprimeriile Statului; page scans at cflr-scans.solirom.ro, p. s.v. iulie
- ^ a b c d e Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1172
- ^ a b c d DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 527
- ^ Kurz, Josef; Hauptová, Zoe (eds.) (1958–1997), Slovník jazyka staroslověnského / Lexicon linguae palaeoslovenicae, 4 vols. + supplements, Praha: Academia; digital ed. gorazd.org, p. s.v. июлии
- ^ a b c Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. iulie
- ^ Pascu, Giorge (1925), Dictionnaire étymologique macédoroumain, 2 vols. (I: Les éléments latins et romans; II: Les éléments grecs, turcs, slaves, albanais, germaniques, magyars, néologismes, créations immédiates, obscurs), Iași: Cultura Națională, p. 2, 55
- ^ Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 345
- ^ Candrea, I.-A.; Adamescu, Gh. (1926–1931), Dicționarul enciclopedic ilustrat „Cartea Românească”, București: Cartea Românească, p. s.v. iulie
- ^ a b Lesicon românescu-latinescu-ungurescu-nemțescu quare de mai mulți autori, în cursul a trideci și mai multor ani s-au lucrat (1825), Buda: Typographia Universității (the Lexicon of Buda, ed. Petru Maior et al.), p. 331
- ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. iulie
Related etymologies
Cite this entry
“Iulie.” Etymologically, 12 Nov. 2026, etymologically.com/ro/iulie. Accessed 12 Nov. 2026.
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