juneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

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

語源 1

From 中期英語 June, june, re-Latinised variants of earlier 中期英語 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”).

固有名詞

June (plural Junes)

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

   Alternative forms: Jun, Jun., JUN, 6

   Synonym: (Quakerism) Sixth Month

   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:

     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.

2. 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'.)

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語源 2

Short for junior.

固有名詞

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.