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Julian is a common male given name in the United States, Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands (as Juliaan), France (as Julien), Italy (as Giuliano), Russia [Iulian (Yulian)] [2] Spain, Latin America (as Julián in Spanish and Juliano or Julião in Portuguese), Iulian in Romanian and elsewhere.
Julian calendar, introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC (708 AUC), a reform of the Roman calendar; Julian day, the continuous count of days since the beginning of the Julian Period; Julian Alps, part of the Alps in Italy and Slovenia; Académie Julian, a former art school in Paris; Count Julian, a 1970 novel by Juan Goytisolo; Julians ...
An etymological dictionary discusses the etymology of the words listed. Often, large dictionaries, such as the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's , will contain some etymological information, without aspiring to focus on etymology.
Julian, Juliana, Julio, Julia, Julius, Julie Julianne is an English language given name ultimately derived from the Latin Iuliana, the feminine form of Iulianus ( Julian ), probably via the French Julienne .
Etymonline, or Online Etymology Dictionary, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often cites), is a free online dictionary that describes the origins of English words, written and compiled by Douglas R. Harper. [1]
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).
Online Etymology Dictionary. Auguste Brachet, An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language: Third Edition; Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales; Dictionary.com. Diez, An Etymological Dictionary of the Romance Languages
A special case is the Icelandic calendar, developed in the 10th century: Inspired by the Julian calendar it introduced a purely solar reckoning with a year, having a fixed number of weeks (52 weeks or 364 days). This necessitated the introduction of "leap weeks" instead of Julian leap days.