iuncus

• juncus

From Proto-Italic *joinikos, cognate with Middle Irish ain (“rushes, reeds”) and Old Norse einir (“juniper”) equated with Latin iūniperus.^[1] Kroonen derives it from a hypothetical Proto-Indo-European *h₁oy-n-yo-,^[2] but Matasović notes that because this group of words is found only in Western Indo-European dialects, it likely originated as a loanword from a non-Indo-European (substrate) source;^[3] this is supported by de Vaan.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈjʊŋ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈjuŋ.kus]

iuncus m (genitive iuncī); second declension

1. rush, reed

   Synonym: scirpus

   • 70 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Eclogues I.46–48:

     Fortunate senex, ergo tua rura manebunt
     Et tibi magna satis, quamvis lapis omnia nudus
     Limosoque palus obducat pascua iunco.

     Oh you, so in old age fortunate! May bare stone and morasses with mud-dwelling reed cover them, yours your land and yours these pastures all, as ample as need be, remain.

Second-declension noun.

• iunceus

• “iuncus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "iuncus", 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)