Pronounced: yehg, noun
Notes: I’m a little surprised that I have never heard this word
Yesterday’s word
The word Juno is “a woman of stately bearing and beauty”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
I knew that Juno was a goddess in Roman mythology; she was the wife of Jupiter (and also his sister). I have heard of the adjective form of our word (“junoesque”). Juno was the goddess of women, marriage, and childbirth. Jupiter was rather promiscuous, so Juno is sometimes used to refer to a jealous woman. The name Juno comes from the Latin word Iuno, which came from iuvenis (young).
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