Julie

See also: julie

English

Etymology

The French equivalent of Julia, feminine of Latin Iūlius. Also an English diminutive form of Julia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdʒuːli/
  • Rhymes: -uːli

Proper noun

Julie

  1. A female given name. Popular in the latter half of the twentieth century.
    • 1813 George Crabbe, Tracy, Poems by George Crabbe, Adolphus William Ward,The University Press 1907, page 455:
      The first-born Child had every dawning Grace / And promis'd Beauty in her form and face. / "We'll call her Julie if you please, my dear," / The Mother cry'd, "I doat on Julie Vere." / "What! no Remembrance of her Aunt! for Shame! / You doat indeed! be Barbara her name!"
    • 1917 Grace Flandrau, Cousin Julia, D. Appleton and Company, page 3:
      "I loathe the name of Julia. Julie, in the French way, is quite pretty, but Julia! - "
      "Call her Cousin Julie then; I've no doubt she'll prefer it. She's nothing if not progressive, I believe."
    • 2000 Jayne Anne Phillips: Mother Kind: page 156:
      They were called Jim & Julie, professionally. It seemed such a waste to deal in fantasy, in illusion and pretend, and not christen one's endeavor more suggestively. Kate wondered if their real names were Letitia and Sylvester, or Cleopatra and Mandrake; perhaps they'd gone undercover with white-bread names in quest of posh children's parties and Yankee suitability.

Translations


Afrikaans

Noun

Julie (plural Juliemaande)

  1. July

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Julie, the French equivalent of Julia, feminine of Latin Iūlius.

Proper noun

Julie

  1. a female given name

Czech

Proper noun

Julie f

  1. A female given name, cognate to Julia.

Danish

Proper noun

Julie

  1. A female given name, cognate to Julia. Less popular form: Julia.
  2. Juliet, the character in the play Romeo and Juliet.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒy.li/

Proper noun

Julie f

  1. A female given name derived from Latin Julia.

Norwegian

Proper noun

Julie

  1. A female given name, cognate to Julia. Less popular form: Julia.
  2. Juliet, the lover of Romeo.

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English Julie, julye, iulius, from Anglo-Norman julie, from Old French jule, juil, from Latin iūlius (Gaius Julius Caesar's month), perhaps a contraction of *Iovilios, "descended from Jove", from Latin Iuppiter, from Proto-Indo-European *dyeu-pəter-, from Proto-Indo-European *deyw-os, 'god', + *pəter, 'father'.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdʒuli]

Proper noun

Julie

  1. July

See also

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