Etymology

Lejeune

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

French Lejeune ← Middle French jeune ← Old French le
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromiuvenem
  2. Vulgar Latin · derived from*iŏvenem
  3. Old French · derived fromjuene, juefne
  4. Latin · derived fromillum
  5. Old French · derived fromle
  6. Middle French · derived fromle
  7. Middle French · derived fromjeune
  8. French · borrowed fromLejeune
  9. English todayLejeune

Borrowed from French Lejeune, from le + jeune, inherited from Middle French jeune. From Middle French le, from Old French le, from Latin illum, from ille. From Old French juene, juefne, from Vulgar Latin *iŏvenem, from Latin iuvenem.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.