June

See also: june

English

In the Month of June by Danish painter L.A. Ring (1899)
Fields in the Month of June by French painter Charles François Daubigny (1874)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: jo͞on, IPA(key): /d͡ʒuːn/, /d͡ʒjuːn/
    • Homophone: dune (with /dʒ/)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /d͡ʒun/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːn

Etymology 1

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dyew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-
Proto-Indo-European *-u
Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu?
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Latin Iūnō
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
Proto-Italic *-ijos
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin Iūnius
Latin iūnius
Old French juinbor.
Middle English Juyn
Middle English June
English June

    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”).

    Alternative forms

    Proper noun

    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
      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[1], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 4 January 2026:
        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], often for a girl born in June, used since the end of the 19th century.
      • 1919 July 11, “Births, Anderson and Vicinity”, in The Anderson Herald, volume 91, number 307, Anderson, Ind., →OCLC, page 10, column 3:
        Mr. and Mrs. W. E. McFarland, 1721 Nichol avenue, girl, named June Irene.
      • 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'.)
    Derived terms
    Descendants
    • Bislama: jun
    • Pitcairn-Norfolk: Juun
    • Tok Pisin: Jun
    • → Assamese: জুন (zun)
    • → Bengali: জুন (jun)
    • → Burmese: ဇွန် (jwan)
    • → Chichewa: Juni
    • → Choctaw: Chun
    • → Dari: جون (jun)
    • → Hausa: Yuni
    • → Hawaiian: Iune
    • → Hindi: जून (jūn)
    • → Malay: Jun
    • → Māori: Hune
    • → Marshallese: Juun
    • → Mokilese: juhn
    • → Swahili: Juni
    • → Tokelauan: Iuni
    • → Tongan: Sune
    • → Zulu: uJuni
    Translations

    See also

    Gregorian calendar monthsedit

    Etymology 2

    Short for junior.

    Proper noun

    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.

    Danish

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English June.

    Proper noun

    June

    1. a female given name

    Fijian

    Proper noun

    June

    1. alternative form of Jiune (“June”)

    See also

    Gregorian calendar monthsedit

    References

    • Gatty, Ronald (2009), “Jiune”, in Fijian–English Dictionary‎[2], Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 95

    Middle English

    Proper noun

    June

    1. alternative form of Juno

    Norwegian

    Etymology

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

    Proper noun

    June

    1. a female given name

    Romanian

    Etymology

    From june (“young”).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈʒu.ne/

    Proper noun

    June m (genitive/dative lui June)

    1. a surname

    References

    • Iordan, Iorgu (1983), Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names]‎[3], Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică

    Tagalog

    Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *dyew-?
    Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
    Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-
    Proto-Indo-European *-u
    Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu?
    Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
    Latin Iūnō
    Proto-Indo-European *-is
    Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
    Proto-Italic *-ijos
    Proto-Italic *-ios
    Old Latin -ios
    Latin -ius
    Latin Iūnius
    Latin iūnius
    Old French juinbor.
    Middle English Juyn
    Middle English June
    English Junebor.
    Tagalog June

      Borrowed from English June.

      Pronunciation

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

      Proper noun

      June (Baybayin spelling ᜇ᜔ᜌᜓᜈ᜔)

      1. a female given name from English

      Tongan

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): [tʃu.ne]

      Proper noun

      June

      1. obsolete form of Sune
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