Middle English Dictionary Entry
juin n.
Entry Info
| Forms | juin n. Also juine, juigne, giugne, joine, jone & jū̆nī(e, jun(e & jūnius, junii. |
| Etymology | OF jüin, jüing, guing, jöing, jon, junie, jun & L jūnius. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The month of June; juines month, June; ~ thonder, thunder in June.
Associated quotations
- a1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1110 : On Iunies monðe ætywde an steorra norðan eastan.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)8310 : Þus was þe þridde day of Iun antioche inome.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)3059 : Mirie it is in time of June.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.245 : He ordeyned a monþe and cleped hym Iunius, þat is, þe monþe of ȝonge men.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.207 : In Marche þey entreþ into þe Weþer..in Iuyn into þe Crabbe.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.1065 : The Monthe of Juin unto this Signe Thou schalt after the reule assigne.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)125a/a : The sixte moneth hatte Junius..Þe monthe of Juyn is ende of springeinge tyme.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.243 : Þe seuent day of Juny..Died þat lady.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)52 : Wise men also founden þere Twelue shedynges in þe ȝere..Þe fierþe June [LinI: Junye] in lengest day.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)18 : It is in Aueril or in maij into myddel of Juin.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.2384 : Whanne halwed is þe sonnys stacioun, Niȝe þe myddes of þe moneþ of Ivn.
- (1420) Let.in Ellis Orig.Let.ser.3.170 : Wryten in Hadelberge the xvij day of the monieth of Juny.
- a1425 Progn.Thunder(1) (Ashm 342)287 : June þonder toneth grete wyndes.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)21b : In februare he is up, and in june he goþe his waye.
- (1440) *Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)3619 : The eyte ydus of Iuny.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)345 : By þe kalendez of Iuny, we schall encountre ones.
- a1456(a1449) Lydg.Say.Nightingale (Trin-C R.3.20)1 : In Iuygne whan Tytan was in þe Crabbes hed.
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)149/5 : It schal be gadered in þe monythes of iunii and julij.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)10638 : In the monyth to merke, the myddis of Ioyne..The boldmen to bent bounet full þicke.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)10822 : With the monith of May & the mery Ione.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)3537 : Þan ȝede he furth into ynde..Quen all þe iolite of giugne & Iulus was endid.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)35 : In januari be þe signe þei clepe aquari..in iune be þe crabbe.
- c1450 Treat.Fish.(Yale 171)173/14 : In june take þe red worme & nyp of þe hed.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)49b/b : In to which signe þe sunne entriþ þe firste day of Juyn, þe 7 hour of þe nyȝt, & haþ 30 daies of þe moone.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)72/36 : Fro þe xe day of March out passand to þe xxiiije day of Iuyn.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)54 : The xj day of Iuyne.
- c1500 XXXti days (Hnt HU 1051)1.421 : xxx days hath Novembre, June, Aprill, and Septembre; of xxviij there is but on, and all the remenunt xxxj.