iuncus

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Latin

Alternative forms

juncus

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *joinikos, cognate with Middle Irish ain (“rushes, reeds”) and Old Norse einir (“juniper”) equated with Latin iūniperus.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯un.kus/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈjun.kus/,

Noun

iuncus m (genitive iuncī); second declension

rush, reed
Synonym: scirpus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	iuncus	iuncī
Genitive	iuncī	iuncōrum
Dative	iuncō	iuncīs
Accusative	iuncum	iuncōs
Ablative	iuncō	iuncīs
Vocative	iunce	iuncī

Derived terms

iunceus

Descendants

Catalan: jonc
Italian: giunco
Old French: jonc
- Middle French: jonc
  - French: jonc
  - → Middle English: jonk, jonke, jounke, joynk, junck, junk (probably)
    - English: junk
Old Galician-Portuguese: junco
- Fala: xuncu, xhuncu, ixhuncu
- Galician: xunco
- Portuguese: junco
Spanish: junco
- → English: junco
- → Translingual: Junco
→ Translingual: Juncus
- → English: juncus

References

“iuncus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
iuncus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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