lune

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English

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Etymology 1

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From Latin lūna (moon).

Noun

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lune (plural lunes)

  1. (obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
    • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 54, column 1:
      Why woman, your husband is in his olde Lunes againe: []
    • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 283, column 2:
      Theſe dangerous, vnſafe Lunes i'th' King, beſhrew them: / He muſt be told on't, and he ſhall []
    • 1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217:
      A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.

Etymology 2

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From French lune, from Latin luna.

Noun

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lune (plural lunes)

  1. (geometry) 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.
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The corresponding convex shape is sometimes called a lune, but is, strictly, a lens.

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Etymology 3

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Alteration of lyon.

Noun

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lune (plural lunes)

  1. (hawking) A leash for a hawk.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “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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Danish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /luːnə/, [ˈluːnə]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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lune n (singular definite lunet, plural indefinite luner)

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

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From Old Norse lugna (to calm).

Verb

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

  1. warm

Etymology 3

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See lun (warm).

Adjective

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lune

  1. inflection of lun:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French lune, from Old French lune, from Latin lūna, from Old Latin losna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-. Cognate with Spanish luna, Portuguese lua, Galician lúa, Catalan lluna, and Italian luna.

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lune f (plural lunes)

  1. the Moon
  2. any natural satellite of a planet
  3. (literary) a month, particularly a lunar month

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Descendants

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  • Haitian Creole: lalin
  • Mauritian Creole: lalin
  • Seychellois Creole: lalin

Further reading

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Friulian

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Etymology

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From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

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lune f (plural lunis)

  1. moon

Italian

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlu.ne/
  • Rhymes: -une
  • Hyphenation: lù‧ne

Noun

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lune f

  1. plural of luna

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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

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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, “Canon Yeoman's Prologue and Tale”, in Canterbury Tales:
      He vnderstood, and brymstoon by his brother, That out of Sol and Luna were ydrawe.
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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lune

  1. Alternative form of loyne (leash)

Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French lune, from Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

Noun

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lune f (plural lunes)

  1. moon
  2. lunation; lunar month

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References

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  • lune on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Neapolitan

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Noun

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lune

  1. plural of luna

Norwegian Bokmål

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Adjective

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lune

  1. definite singular/plural of lun

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Adjective

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lune

  1. definite singular/plural of lun

Old French

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Etymology

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From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

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IPA(key): /lunə/

Noun

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lune f (nominative singular lune)

  1. the Moon

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Slovak

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lune f

  1. dative/locative singular of luna

Slovene

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lúne

  1. inflection of lúna:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

Tarantino

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Etymology

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From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

Noun

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lune

  1. moon

Walloon

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Etymology

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From Old French lune, from Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

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lune f

  1. moon