lune

See also: Lune, luné, luñè, and l'une

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /luːn/

Etymology 1

From Latin luna (“moon”).

Noun

lune (plural lunes)

  1. (obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak
    • 1623, Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale:
      These dangerous, unsafe lunes i' the king.

Etymology 2

From French lune, from Latin luna.

Noun

lune (plural lunes)

  1. A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles
    • 1984, Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner:
      What he worried about was any eventual convexity, a shrinking, it might be, of the planet itself to some palpable curvature of whatever he would be standing on, so that he would be left sticking out like a projected radius, unsheltered and reeling across the empty lunes of his tiny sphere.
  2. Anything crescent-shaped

Usage notes

The corresponding convex shape is sometimes called a lune, but is, strictly, a lens.

Etymology 3

Alteration of lyon.

Noun

lune (plural lunes)

  1. (hawking) A leash for a hawk.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xvj, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:
      And thenne was he ware of a Faucon came fleynge ouer his hede toward an hyghe elme / and longe lunys aboute her feet / and she flewe vnto the elme to take her perche / the lunys ouer cast aboute a bough / And whanne she wold haue taken her flyghte / she henge by the legges fast / and syre launcelot sawe how he henge

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Anagrams

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /luːnə/, [ˈluːnə]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German lūne (“lunar phase, caprice”), from Latin lūna. Cognate with German Laune.

Noun

lune n (singular definite lunet, plural indefinite luner)

  1. mood
  2. whim, caprice
  3. humor, humour
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Etymology 2

From Old Norse lugna (“to calm”).

Verb

lune (imperative lun, infinitive at lune, present tense luner, past tense lunede, perfect tense er/har lunet)

  1. warm

Etymology 3

See lun (“warm”).

Adjective

lune

  1. definite and plural of lun

French

Etymology

From Old French lune, from Latin lūna, from Old Latin losna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lowksneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lyn/
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Noun

lune f (plural lunes)

  1. The Moon.
  2. Any natural satellite of a planet.
  3. (literary) A month, particularly a lunar month.

Derived terms

Further reading

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin lūna.

Noun

lune f (plural lunis)

  1. moon

Italian

Noun

lune f

  1. plural of luna

Anagrams

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French lune (“moon”), from Latin lūna.

Noun

lune (uncountable)

  1. (astronomy, sometimes capitalised) The celestial body closest to the Earth, considered to be a planet in the Ptolemic system as well as the boundary between the Earth and the heavens.
  2. (rare, sometimes capitalised) A white, precious metal; silver.
    • 1395, Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "Canon Yeoman's Prologue and Tale".
      He vnderstood, and brymstoon by his brother, That out of Sol and Luna were ydrawe.

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Descendants

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Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

lune

  1. definite singular and plural of lun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

lune

  1. definite singular and plural of lun

Novial

Noun

lune c (plural lunes)

  1. moon

Old French

Etymology

From Latin lūna.

Noun

lune f (nominative singular lune)

  1. the Moon

Descendants

Tarantino

Noun

lune

  1. moon

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French lune, from Latin lūna.

Noun

lune f

  1. moon
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