Juliet
See also: juliet
Translingual edit
Noun edit
Juliet
- Misspelling of Juliett from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian Giulietta, diminutive of Giulia, from Latin Iūlia, feminine of Iūlius, a Roman family name. Cognate with French Juliette.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒuːlɪɛt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌd͡ʒuliˈɛt/, /ˈd͡ʒuliət/
- Rhymes: (US) -ɛt
Proper noun edit
Juliet
- A female given name from Latin.
- 1977, Timothy Findley, The Wars, Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence, →ISBN, page 110:
- "All I ask," she says, fitting the cigarette into a holder, "is that you don't call me Juli-et. I cannot abide Juli-et. It maddens me!" "Yes, ma'am." "Here, we say Joolyut. Joolyut. Joolyut. Say it for me."
- One of the main characters of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
- For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
- A woman who is or is with a great lover.
- By analogy with the Shakespearean character, a woman who is in love with a man from a family, party, or country opposing that of her own.
- (astronomy) The sixth moon of the planet Uranus.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
female given name
character in Romeo and Juliet
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Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
From English Juliet, from Italian Giulietta, diminutive form of Giulia (“Julia”), from Julius, a Roman family name.
Proper noun edit
Juliet
- a female given name from English [in turn from Latin]
- one of the main characters of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet
- (astronomy) the sixth moon of the planet Uranus
Turkish edit
Proper noun edit
Juliet