ETYMOLOGY
from Latin Jovius, from Jovis (Jove, poetical equivalent of Jupiter, name of the highest deity of the ancient Romans)
EXAMPLE
“… ‘And now I lepe louy pe [merry foot.] ;
Now I sterte, & now I ffle.
Selde abydyng in O thouht,
Al daungerous I sette at nouht, …”
From: The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man
English by John Lydgate, 1426,
from the French of Guillaume de Deguileville
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