giunca

See also: giuncã

Italian

Alternative forms

• giunco, giuncho, ioncque (archaic)
• giunchi, zonchi (in the plural, archaic)

Etymology

From Portuguese junco, from Malay jong, from Javanese ꦗꦺꦴꦁ (jong), from Old Javanese joṅ (“ship”). Compare English junk, Dutch jonk, French jonque, Spanish junco.

Noun

giunca f (plural giunche)

1. (nautical) junk (vessel)

Descendants

• → French: jonque
• → German: Junke, Juncke, Dschunke
• → Latin: junkus, (New Latin) iunca, (New Latin) iuncus
  • → Dutch: ionco, iunco
  • → Italian: ioncque
    • → French: ionct
    • → Spanish: iuncque

Further reading

• “junk, n.³”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2024.

Anagrams

• cugina