June

Meanings

1. 1
   name

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

   Holonyms: calendar year; year

2. 2
   name

   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.

   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'.)

3. 3
   name

   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.

4. 4
   verb

   To rush.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dyew-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyuder.? Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder. Latin Iūnō Proto-Indo-European *-yós 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 vigo…