From Spanish 'junta' (council), from Latin 'junctus' (joined) — literally 'a joined body,' now a military ruling council.
A military or political group that rules a country after seizing power by force; a deliberative or administrative council, especially in Spain or Latin America.
From Spanish 'junta' (a council, a meeting, a board, a governing body), from the feminine past participle of 'juntar' (to join, to assemble), from Latin 'jūnctus' (joined), past participle of 'jungere' (to join, to yoke, to bind together), from PIE *yewg- (to join, to yoke). The PIE root is one of the most widespread in Indo-European, producing Sanskrit 'yuj-' (to yoke), Greek 'zygon' (ζυγόν, yoke), Latin 'jugum' (yoke), and English 'yoke' itself through Germanic. A 'junta' is literally 'a joined body' — a group of people who have
The English word 'junto' (a secret political faction) is an anglicized variant of 'junta' that was common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The 'Junto' was the name Benjamin Franklin gave to his famous club of mutual improvement in Philadelphia (1727). Meanwhile, in British history, the 'Junto' referred to the Whig leaders who dominated