iunctus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of iungō (“join”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯uːnk.tus/, [ˈi̯uːŋkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈjunk.tus/, [ˈjuŋkt̪us]

Participle

iūnctus (feminine iūncta, neuter iūnctum); first/second-declension participle

1. joined, having been joined

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	iūnctus	iūncta	iūnctum		iūnctī	iūnctae	iūncta
Genitive	iūnctī	iūnctae	iūnctī		iūnctōrum	iūnctārum	iūnctōrum
Dative	iūnctō		iūnctō		iūnctīs
Accusative	iūnctum	iūnctam	iūnctum		iūnctōs	iūnctās	iūncta
Ablative	iūnctō	iūnctā	iūnctō		iūnctīs
Vocative	iūncte	iūncta	iūnctum		iūnctī	iūnctae	iūncta

Descendants

• Asturian: xuntu, xunta
• Catalan: junt
• Galician: xunto, xunta
• French: joint
  • → English: joint
• Friulian: zonte
• Italian: giunto, giunta
• Ladin: jont, jonta
• Neapolitan: jonta
• Occitan: jonch, junt
• Portuguese: junto, junta
• Sicilian: junta, juntu
• Spanish: junta, junto, yunto
  • → English: junta
• Venetian: xonto, xonta

References

• “iunctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• iunctus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)