ienuarius

Latin

Etymology

From iānuārius, reflecting a sporadic tendency for /j/ to raise a following /a(ː)/ to /e/. Compare the similar change from iactō to iectō. ⟨ienuarius⟩, and other inflections thereof, is common in Imperial inscriptions.

Noun

ienuārius m (genitive ienuāriī or ienuārī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. January

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ienuārius	ienuāriī
genitive	ienuāriī ienuārī1	ienuāriōrum
dative	ienuāriō	ienuāriīs
accusative	ienuārium	ienuāriōs
ablative	ienuāriō	ienuāriīs
vocative	ienuārie	ienuāriī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: ghjennaghju, ghjinnaghju
  • Italian: gennaio
  • Neapolitan: jennaro, Gennaro

    Tarantino: scennare

  • Sicilian: jinnaru
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: Genâr, Zenâr
  • Ladin: jené
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: znêr
    • Ligurian: zenâ, znè
    • Lombard: zenèr, giner

      Alpine: gianej

    • Piedmontese: gené, genè, znè
  • Venetan: xenaro
    • → Cimbrian: djenaro, genaaro (Sette Comuni)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Anglo-Norman: jenever
    • → Middle English: Ieneuer
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Aragonese: chiner, chinero, chinere
  • Catalan: gener, giner
  • Gascon: gèr
  • Occitan: genièr, genèr, genier
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Extremaduran: eneru, heneru
  • Old Leonese: jenero, jeneyro
    • Asturian: xineru
    • Leonese: xineiru
  • Old Spanish: enero, jenero
    • Spanish: enero
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: gennàrgiu, gennaxu, bennarzu

References

• Grandgent, Charles Hall. 1907. An introduction to Vulgar Latin. Boston: D.C. Heath & Co. Page 96.