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Juno or Hera Barberini, a 2nd-century statue of the goddess at the Vatican

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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    There are two hypotheses:

    Pronunciation

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    Proper noun

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    Iūnō f sg (genitive Iūnōnis); third declension

    1. (Roman mythology, religion) Juno, queen of the gods, patron of rulers and childbirth, equivalent to the Greek Hera.
      • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti VI.283–288:
        cur sit virginibus, quæris, dea culta ministris? / inveniam causas hac quoque parte suas. / ex Ope Iunonem memorant Cereremque creatas / semine Saturni; tertia Vesta fuit. / utraque nupserunt, ambæ peperisse feruntur; / de tribus impatiens restitit una viri.
        Why, you ask, is the goddess tended by virgin ministers? I’ll discover the true causes for this as well. They say that Juno and Ceres were born of Ops by Saturn’s seed; Vesta was the third daughter. The other two married, both reported to have borne children; of the three, one remained who could not bear a husband.
    2. (New Latin) Juno, a Main Belt asteroid.

    Declension

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    Third-declension noun, singular only.

    Case Singular
    Nominative Iūnō
    Genitive Iūnōnis
    Dative Iūnōnī
    Accusative Iūnōnem
    Ablative Iūnōne
    Vocative Iūnō

    Derived terms

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    References

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    • Clackson, James, Indo-European Word Formation: Proceedings from the International Conference, 2002

    Further reading

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    • Iūnō”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • Jūno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • Jūno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 873/1.
    • Iūno in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 494
    • Iuno”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

    Middle English

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    Proper noun

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    Iuno

    1. Alternative form of Juno