junco

See also: Junco

English

WOTD – 10 October 2020

Etymology

A dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis hyemalis; sense 1).
A female common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus), formerly known as a junco (sense 2).

Borrowed from Spanish junco (“reed, rush”), from Latin iuncus (“reed, rush”).[1] Doublet of juncus and possibly junk. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Particularly: “Semantic shift? Or simply borrowed from translingual Junco?”

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkəʊ/
  • Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkoʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌŋkəʊ
  • Hyphenation: jun‧co

Noun

junco (plural juncos or juncoes)

  2. Any bird of the genus Junco, which includes several species of North American sparrow.
    • 1862 July, Daniel Wilson, “Science in Rupert’s Land”, in The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science, and Art, volume VII, number XL (New Series), Toronto, Ont.: […] Canadian Institute […], →OCLC, page 343:
      Among many others secured by him, I noticed the eggs and parent birds of the American Widgeon, the Black duck, Canvass-back duck, Spirit duck (Bucephala albeola); small Black-head duck (Fulix affinis); the Wax-wing, (Ampelis garrulus); the Kentucky warbler, the Trumpeter swan, the Duck hawk (Falco anatum), and two species of juncoes.
    • 1899 July 1, Henry B. Kaeding, “The Genus Junco in California”, in Bulletin of the Cooper Ornithological Club: A Bi-monthly Exponent of Californian Ornithology, volume I, number 5, Santa Clara, Calif.: Cooper Ornithological Club, published September–October 1899, →OCLC, page 81, column 1:
      The juncos of this region were separated by Mr. L. M. Loomis and carry very striking characters, the most conspicuous being the bright rufous or reddish dorsal patch which is much more pronounced than in either oregonus or thurberi. These juncos are very common in the vicinity of Monterey during summer and during the breeding season are the only ones found there, but as foon as the young are fledged the birds wander.
    • 1963, Herbert Friedmann, “Brown-headed Cowbird [Hosts of the Brown-headed Cowbird]”, in Host Relations of the Parasitic Cowbirds, Washington, D.C.: United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, →OCLC, page 161:
      The slate-coloured junco is an infrequently reported host; probably it is molested very slightly by the brown-headed cowbird. [...] Mills (1957, pp. 25–27) noted that E. C. Allen found a fledgling cowbird attended and fed by juncos near Halifax, Nova Scotia, on July 17, 1933.
  3. (obsolete) The common reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus), a bird found in Europe and much of the Palearctic.

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References

  1. ^ Compare “junco, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1901; “junco, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Further reading

Galician

Noun

junco m (plural juncos, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of xunco

Further reading

  • “junco”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

Latin

Noun

juncō

  1. dative/ablative singular of juncus

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʒũ.ku/

Etymology 1

    Learned borrowing from Latin iuncus.

    Noun

    junco m (plural juncos)

    1. reed, rush

    Etymology 2

    Etymology tree
    Malay jongbor.
    Arabic جُنْك (junk)bor.
    Portuguese junco

      Borrowed from Arabic جُنْك (junk).

      Alternative forms

      Noun

      junco m (plural juncos)

      1. (nautical) junk (type of Chinese sailing ship)
      Descendants
      • → English: junk (reinforced by Dutch jonk)
      • → Italian: giunca, giunco, giuncho, ioncque (archaic), giunchi, zonchi (in the plural, archaic)
        • → French: jonque
        • → German: Junke, Juncke, Dschunke
        • → Latin: junkus, (New Latin) iunca, (New Latin) iuncus
          • → Dutch: ionco, iunco
          • → Italian: ioncque
            • → French: ionct
            • → Spanish: iuncque
      • → Spanish: junco, juanga, joanga

      Further reading

      Spanish

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈxunko/ [ˈxũŋ.ko]
      • Audio (Venezuela):(file)
      • Rhymes: -unko
      • Syllabification: jun‧co

      Etymology 1

      From Latin iuncus. Cognate with English junk.

      Noun

      junco m (plural juncos)

      1. reed, rush
        Synonyms: junquera, carrizo, caña
      Derived terms
      Descendants

      Etymology 2

      Borrowed from Portuguese junco, from Arabic جنك (junk), from Malay jong (جوڠ). The alternative forms may derive from Ternate juanga.

      Noun

      junco m (plural juncos)

      1. (nautical) junk (a Chinese ship)
      Alternative forms
      • juanga, joanga, iuncque (archaic)

      Further reading

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