juxta

See also: juxta- and iuxta

English

Etymology

From Latin iuxta.

Noun

juxta (plural juxtae)

1. In males of most species of order Lepidoptera, an organ that supports the aedeagus and is located between the two valvae.

Preposition

juxta

1. Near to, alongside, next to.
   • 1870, Richard Stephen Charnock, Patronymica Cornu-Britannica, page 7:

     From Bodenick in Lanteglos juxta Fowey, the same as Leland's Bodeneck and Bodennck.

Latin

Adverb

jū̆xtā (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of iū̆xtā

Preposition

jū̆xtā (+ accusative)

1. Alternative form of iū̆xtā

References

• “juxta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press