Juntine

J8U1N1T1I1N1E1
UK/ˈd͡ʒʌntaɪn/

adjective

Of, pertaining to, occurring in, or typifying any one or more of the editions of texts published by the Giunti family of Renaissance Florentine printers.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectiveJuntine (not comparable)

alternative abbreviation Junt.

  1. not comparableOf, pertaining to, occurring in, or typifying any one or more of the editions of texts published by the Giunti family of Renaissance Florentine printers.

    In the Juntine edition (Venice, 1609) of Spuria Galeni the alphabet is preceded by a Paternian letter.

    ibidem, p. 411, f.n. 44
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    The pseudo-Galenic letter ad Paternianum…has been published, but only in the old and often inaccessible “Juntine” editions of Galen, as a liber de dynamidiis.

    1936 Feb, Loren Carey MacKinney, “‚Dynamidia’ in medieval medical literature”, in Isis, XXIV, № 2, p. 408
nounJuntine (plural Juntines)

plural Juntines · alternative abbreviation Junt.

  1. A Juntine edition of a given text. (Where there are multiple editions of the same text, they are often qualified as first Juntine, second Juntine, etc.)

    If now all that is common to the first Aldine and the Juntine comes from Marullus, as Lachmann maintains, surely Candidus must have been struck with this coincidence, and would have recorded it against Avancius, the editor of the great rival publisher.

    1864, Titi Lucretui Cari de Rerum Natura libri sex with a translation and notes by H.A.J. Munro M.A., introduction

Origin

  1. New LatinJuntīnus
  2. EnglishJuntine

Borrowed from New Latin Juntīnus.

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Translations

Latin Juntīnus
  • Juntīnusof, pertaining to, occurring in, or typifying the editions of the Giunti printing family
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