The story
- Latin · derived fromiunctus
- Spanish · borrowed fromjunta
- English todayjunta
Borrowed from Spanish junta (literally "a thing gathered or joined"), feminine form of junto, from Latin iunctus, perfect passive participle of iungō (“join”). Attested from 1623.
Words from the same roots
Latiniunctus all →
joint
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.