June

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: jo͞on, IPA^(key): /d͡ʒuːn/, /d͡ʒjuːn/
  • Homophone: dune (with /dʒ/)
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒun/

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• Rhymes: -uːn

From Middle English June, june, re-Latinised variants of earlier Middle English Juyn, juyng, from Old French juing, juin, from Latin iūnius, the month of the goddess Iuno (“Juno”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu (“vital force, youthful vigor”).

June (plural Junes)

2. The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July, containing the northern solstice.

   Alternative forms: Jun, Jun., JUN, 6

   Holonyms: calendar year; year

   Comeronyms: January, February, March, April, May, July, August, September, October, November, December

   this glad June day

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.

   • 2023 September 19, Laura He, “China woos Tesla, JP Morgan and other Western companies as foreign investment slumps”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     Direct investment liabilities, a measure of FDI reflected in a country’s balance of payments, fell to just $4.9 billion in the April to June months, down 87% from a year earlier, according to data published by SAFE last month. That was the lowest amount in any quarter since records began in 1998.

3. A female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English], for a girl born in June, used since the end of the 19th century.
   • 2002, Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 29:

     Her parents were old, really old. That's why they'd given her such an old-fashioned name. June, because she was born in June. If she'd been born in November would they have called her November? June was a name for women in sitcoms and soap operas, the name of women who knit with synthetic wool and follow recipes that use cornflakes, not the name of a thirty-year-old with a ring in her nose ('Oh, June'.)

Short for junior.

June

1. A male given name, or more often nickname, for a boy who is junior to someone else, especially someone with the same name, such as his father.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:June.

Borrowed from English June.

June

1. a female given name

June

June

1. alternative form of Juno

Borrowed from English June at the end of the 19th century.

June

1. a female given name

• Juni

From june (“young”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʒu.ne/

June m (genitive/dative lui June)

1. a surname

• Iordan, Iorgu (1983) Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names]‎^[2], Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică

Borrowed from English June.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒun/ [ˈd͡ʒun̪]
  • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /ˈdjun/ [ˈd̪jun̪]
• Rhymes: -un
• Syllabification: June

June (Baybayin spelling ᜇ᜔ᜌᜓᜈ᜔)

1. a female given name from English

[tʃu.ne]

June

1. obsolete form of Sune