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Juntine

UK/ˈd͡ʒʌntaɪn/

Juntine 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.

Adjective

Juntine (not comparable)

  1. 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.
    • 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
    • In the Juntine edition (Venice, 1609) of Spuria Galeni the alphabet is preceded by a Paternian letter.ibidem, p. 411, f.n. 44

Noun

Juntine (plural Juntines)

  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

Forms of Juntine

Adjective
alternative abbreviationJunt.
Noun
pluralJuntines

Origin of Juntine

Borrowed from New Latin Juntīnus.

Questions about Juntine

What does Juntine mean?
Juntine means 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.
What part of speech is Juntine?
Juntine can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce Juntine?
Juntine is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒʌntaɪn/ (UK).

Words near Juntine in the dictionary

  1. junt
  2. Junt.
  3. junta
  4. juntaism
  5. juntas
  6. Juntine
  7. Juntines
  8. junto
  9. juntocracy
  10. juntoes
  11. juntos

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