The common name walnut derives from Old English wealhhnutu, literally 'foreign nut' (from wealh'foreign' + hnutu 'nut'),[2] because it was introduced from Gaul and Italy.[3] The Latin name for the walnut was nux Gallica, "Gallic nut".
The generic name comes from Latin jūglans, meaning 'walnut, walnut tree'; jūglans in turn is a contraction of Jōvis glans, 'nut of [the god] Jupiter'.
As Jupiter was beginning the coronation of Regulus, another startling symbol rose in the sky. The constellation which rises in the east behind Leo is Virgo, The Virgin. When Jupiter and Regulus were first meeting, she rose clothed in the Sun. And as John said, the moon was at her feet. It was a new moon, symbolically birthed at the feet of The Virgin.