iunctus

Latin

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *yewg-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *yugtós

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Proto-Italic *jungōinflu.

Proto-Italic *ju(n)ktos

Latin iūnctus

Perfect passive participle of iungō (“to join”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈjuːŋk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈjuŋk.tus]

Participle

iūnctus (feminine iūncta, neuter iūnctum); first/second-declension participle

1. joined, having been joined

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	iūnctus	iūncta	iūnctum		iūnctī	iūnctae	iūncta
genitive	iūnctī	iūnctae	iūnctī		iūnctōrum	iūnctārum	iūnctōrum
dative	iūnctō	iūnctae	iūnctō		iūnctīs
accusative	iūnctum	iūnctam	iūnctum		iūnctōs	iūnctās	iūncta
ablative	iūnctō	iūnctā	iūnctō		iūnctīs
vocative	iūncte	iūncta	iūnctum		iūnctī	iūnctae	iūncta

Descendants

• Asturian: xuntu, xunta
• Catalan: junt
• Friulian: zonte
• Italian: giunto, giunta
• Ladin: jont, jonta
• Middle French: ioinct, joint
  • → English: joint
  • French: joint
• Neapolitan: jonta
• Occitan: jonch, junt
• Old Galician-Portuguese: junta
  • Galician: xunta
  • Portuguese: junta
• Old Galician-Portuguese: junto, iunto, jumto, juncto, jũto
  • Fala: ixhuntu, juntu, xhuntu
  • Galician: xunto
  • Portuguese: junto
• Sicilian: junta, juntu
• Spanish: junta, junto, yunto
  • → English: junta
• Venetan: xonto, xonta

References

• “iunctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "iunctus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)