JUNE, the sixth month of the year, during which the sun enters the sign of Cancer. The word comes from...
June
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Junius.
from the Latin Junius, which some derive à Junone. Ovid, in the 6th of his Fasti, makes the goddess say,
Junius à nostro nomine nomen habet.
Others rather derive it à junioribus, this being for young people as the month of May was for old ones.
Junius est juvenum; qui fuit antè senum.
In this month is the summer solstice.