lune
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /luːn/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -uːn
Etymology 1
From Latin luna (“moon”).
Noun
lune (plural lunes)
- (obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale:
- These dangerous, unsafe lunes i' the king.
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Etymology 2
From French lune, from Latin luna.
Noun
lune (plural lunes)
- 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.
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- 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)
- (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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Related terms
- lunar
- lunatic
- lunacy
See also
- loon
- Monday
Anagrams
- nuel
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)
- mood
- whim, caprice
- humor, humour
Inflection
neuter gender | Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | lune | lunet | luner | lunerne |
genitive | lunes | lunets | luners | lunernes |
Synonyms
- (mood): humør
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)
- warm
Etymology 3
See lun (“warm”).
Adjective
lune
- inflection of lun:
- definite singular
- plural
French
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lyn/
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Noun
lune f (plural lunes)
- the Moon
- any natural satellite of a planet
- (literary) a month, particularly a lunar month
Derived terms
- clair de lune
- con comme la Lune
- demander la lune
- être dans la lune
- lune de miel
- lunette
- pierre de lune
- pleine lune
- une fois toutes les lunes
- vieilles lunes
Related terms
- lunaire
- lunaison
- lunatique
- lundi
- lunule
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: lalin
- Mauritian Creole: lalin
- Seychellois Creole: lalin
Further reading
- “lune”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Noun
lune f (plural lunis)
- moon
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlu.ne/
- Rhymes: -une
- Hyphenation: lù‧ne
Noun
lune f
- plural of luna
Anagrams
- ulne
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French lune (“moon”), from Latin lūna.
Alternative forms
- luna
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈliu̯n(ə)/
Noun
lune (uncountable)
- (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.
- (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.
- 1395, Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "Canon Yeoman's Prologue and Tale".
Synonyms
- mone
- (planet): Lucyna, Diane, Phebe
Descendants
- English: Luna
References
- “luna, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 June 2018.
Noun
lune
- Alternative form of loyne (“leash”)
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French mur, from Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Noun
lune f (plural lunes)
- moon
- lunation; lunar month
Descendants
- French: lune
- Haitian Creole: lalin
- Mauritian Creole: lalin
- Seychellois Creole: lalin
References
- lune on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Neapolitan
Noun
lune
- plural of luna
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
lune
- definite singular/plural of lun
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
lune
- definite singular/plural of lun
Old French
Etymology
From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Noun
lune f (nominative singular lune)
- the Moon
Descendants
- Bourguignon: leugne
- Middle French: lune
- French: lune
- Haitian Creole: lalin
- Mauritian Creole: lalin
- Seychellois Creole: lalin
- French: lune
- Norman: leune
- Walloon: lune
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlune]
Noun
lune f
- dative/locative singular of luna
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lùːnɛ/
Noun
lúne
- inflection of lúna:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative plural
Tarantino
Etymology
From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Noun
lune
- moon
Walloon
Etymology
From Old French lune, from Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Noun
lune f
- moon