English
Julius
Julius comes from Latin Iūlius ‘of the gens Julia, a patrician Roman family’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEIūlius‘of the gens Julia, a patrician Roman family’
- Englishearliest quotation 1526Julius
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEIūlius‘of the gens Julia, a patrician Roman family’
- Englishearliest quotation 1526Julius
Earliest quotation: 1526, [William Tyndale, The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible): “WHẽ it was cõcluded that we ſhulde ſayle into…”
The story
Borrowed from Latin Iūlius, of uncertain origin, possibly from Ancient Greek ἴουλος (íoulos, “downy first beard hairs”), i.e. the young, or from Latin Jovilius (‘devoted to Jove’).uncertain The source flags this step as uncertain.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *welH- ‘to turn, wind, round’
well, walk, wall, volume, revolution, evolution, involve, valve, evolve, revolt, vault, waltz, vulgar, convoluted, helix, vagrant, divulge, wale, voluminous, gauche, vulva, convolution, vulgate, iliac, involution, voluble, valvular, valise, ilium, 76 more
Today it means
name A male given name from Latin.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin Iūlius / Julius