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English
Proper noun
Juturna
- (Roman mythology) A goddess of fountains, wells and springs, and the mother of Fontus by Janus.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From iuvō (“I help”) + Turnus (“king of the Rutuli”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Jūturna f (genitive Jūturnae); first declension
- (Roman mythology) A nymph, sister of Turnus
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
References
- “Juturna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Juturna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.