English
juxta
Juxta comes from Latin iuxta ‘nearly, nigh’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiuxta‘nearly, nigh’
- Englishearliest quotation 1870juxta
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiuxta‘nearly, nigh’
- Englishearliest quotation 1870juxta
Earliest quotation: 1870, Richard Stephen Charnock, Patronymica Cornu-Britannica: “From Bodenick in Lanteglos juxta Fowey, the same as…”
Linked words
through Latin iuxta ‘nearly, nigh’
Today it means
noun In males of most species of order Lepidoptera, an organ that supports the aedeagus and is located between the two valvae.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin iuxta / juxta