lune

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See also: Lune, luné, luně, lunę, luñè, lůně, l'une, łune, and łunę

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /luːn/, /lɪu̯n/
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  • Rhymes: -uːn

Etymology 1

From Latin lūna (“moon”).

Noun

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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , 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

From French lune, from Latin luna.

Noun

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.
Usage notes

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

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Etymology 3

Alteration of lyon.

Noun

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
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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Danish

Pronunciation

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
Inflection
Declension of lune
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative lune lunet luner lunerne
genitive lunes lunets luners lunernes
Synonyms

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

French

Etymology

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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Noun

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

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

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Friulian

Etymology

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

Noun

lune f (plural lunis)

  1. moon

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lune f

  1. plural of luna

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Middle English

Etymology 1

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

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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, “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

Noun

lune

  1. 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)

  1. moon
  2. lunation; lunar month

Descendants

References

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

Neapolitan

Noun

lune

  1. plural of luna

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

lune

  1. definite singular/plural of lun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

lune

  1. definite singular/plural of lun

Old French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /lunə/

Noun

lune f (nominative singular lune)

  1. the Moon

Descendants

Slovak

Pronunciation

Noun

lune f

  1. dative/locative singular of luna

Slovene

Pronunciation

Noun

lúne

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

Tarantino

Etymology

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

Noun

lune

  1. moon

Walloon

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

lune f

  1. moon
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