luna
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin lūna (“moon; month; crescent”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
luna (plural lunas)
- (entomology) A luna moth: a member of species Actias luna.
- 1944, Elizabeth Enright, Then There Were Five[1], Farrar & Rinehart, page 80:
- “Gee,” whispered Oliver. He sat there staring. “A luna! I never thought I’d see a real luna!”
- 1969, Sterling North, “An Introduction to Butterflies and Moths”, in Boys’ Life, May 1969 issue, Boy Scouts of America, page 64:
- On the previous evening we had discovered with delight a luna with the fabulous moons, one on each pale green wing.
- 2010, Sally Roth (contributor), in Judy Pray (compiler), Garden Wisdom & Know-How: Everything You Need to Know to Plant, Grow, and Harvest, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 348:
- Spray BT on your young oak to protect against gypsy moths, and you wipe out future lunas, cecropias, and everything else on the leaves, along with the pests.
- (Christianity, chiefly Catholicism and Anglicanism) A lunette: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance. [from 19th c.][1]
- 1907 May, “Dominicanus”, “The Rosary and the Blessed Sacrament”, in the Dominican Friars, The Rosary Magazine, Volume 30, Number 5, page 494:
- The Bread of Angels is first taken from the tabernacle, where it rests in the luna, and placed upon the altar, covered with a corporal. After genuflecting, the priest puts the luna containing the Blessed Sacrament on its throne—the monstrance—and elevates it […]
- 1917, John F. Sullivan, The Externals of the Catholic Church, BiblioLife, LLC, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 115–116:
- This receptacle is called a “luna” or “lunula” (a moon, or a little moon), and has glass on either side, so that the Host may be seen when enclosed therein. […] ¶ […] ¶ The ciborium, the pyx and luna of the ostensorium are blessed with a simpler formula than that used for the chalice, and […] ¶ […] ¶ The chalice, the paten, the luna and the pyx are sacred things, true sacramentals, and are worthy of deepest reverence; for […]
- 2007, John Trigilio, Kenneth Brighenti, The Catholicism Answer Book: The 300 Most Frequently Asked Questions, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 156:
- The luna, which is a piece of glass in the shape of a moon, contains the Blessed Sacrament, previously consecrated. The luna is then placed in the middle of the sunburst of the monstrance.
- 1907 May, “Dominicanus”, “The Rosary and the Blessed Sacrament”, in the Dominican Friars, The Rosary Magazine, Volume 30, Number 5, page 494:
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Etymology 2 edit
From Hawaiian luna (“leader; supervisor”).[2]
Noun edit
luna (plural luna or lunas)
- (Hawaii) A foreman on a plantation.
- 1922 June, U. G. Murphy, “The Japanese Problem in Hawaii: How the Task of Christianizing and Americanizing the Oriental is Progressing”, in The Friend, volume 91, number 6, page 130:
- There are several reasons why the Hawaiian-born Japanese boys and girls do not take kindly to plantation labor, but one of the chief reasons is the objection to the kind of lunas who oversee the work of the laborers.
- 1959, James Michener, Hawaii[2], Fawcett Crest, published 1986, →ISBN, page 737:
- […] haoles could not visualize Chinese or Japanese in positions of authority. And from sad experience, the great plantation owners had discovered that the Americans they could get to serve as lunas were positively no good. Capable Americans expected office jobs and incapable ones were unable to control the Oriental […]
- 2000, Sally Engle Merry, Colonizing Hawai'i: the cultural power of law, page 321:
- After the day was over I went to the luna to count my day but he would not. Then I went to him the second time and he said he would not put it down.
- 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 35:
- Capital punishment was outlawed by the government but some plantation managers and luna still delivered lashings and other forms of abuse.
Usage notes edit
- This noun, though inflected as an English word (singular luna, plural lunas), is frequently italicized as a loanword.
References edit
- ^ “luna” in Don S. Armentrout and Robert Boak Slocum (editors), An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church: A User-Friendly Reference for Episcopalians, Church Publishing, Inc. (2000), →ISBN.
- ^ 1986, Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian, revised and enlarged edition (University of Hawaii Press)
Anagrams edit
Aragonese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Noun edit
luna f (plural lunas)
References edit
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “luna”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: lu‧nâ
Noun edit
luna
- one's proper place under the sun
- Balik sa imong luna aron walay gubot.
- Return to your proper place to avoid trouble.
- room, accommodation
- May luna pa ba ko sa kinabuhi mo?
- Is there still room for me in your life?
Verb edit
luna
- pahi~ - to put things in order
- Palad ang mipahiluna nga magkita sila.
- It was arranged by fate that they meet.
Chavacano edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Spanish luna (“moon”).
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luna
Corsican edit
Etymology edit
From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Noun edit
luna f
References edit
- “luna” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Czech luna, from Proto-Slavic *lunà, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *láukšnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂. Cognates include Latin lūna, Ancient Greek λύχνος (lúkhnos), Old Prussian lauxnos and Middle Irish luan.
Pronunciation edit
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luna f
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Adjective edit
luna (accusative singular lunan, plural lunaj, accusative plural lunajn)
Fala edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese lũa, from Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
luna f (plural lunas)
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Franco-Provençal edit
Etymology edit
From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Noun edit
luna f
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
luna (plural lunas)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Luna, from Latin lūna, from Old Latin losna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂, derived from the root *lewk- (“bright”). Cognates include Armenian լուսին (lusin), Spanish luna, Portuguese lua, Romanian lună, Russian луна́ (luná).
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Noun edit
luna f (plural lune)
- (colloquial, astronomy, by extension of Luna) a natural satellite
- Synonym: satellite naturale
- (archaic, literary) a month, moon
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIII”, in Inferno [Hell][4], lines 22, 25–27; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][5], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Breve pertugio dentro da la Muda,
[…]
m’avea mostrato per lo suo forame
più lune già, quand’io feci ’l mal sonno
che del futuro mi squarciò ’l velame- "A narrow opening in the mew had already shown me many moons through its hole, when I dreamed the evil dream that tore apart the veil of the future for me."
- (archaic, figurative, by extension) a time of the year
- (alchemy) silver
- (heraldry) a full moon (as opposed to a crescent)
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Ladino edit
Etymology edit
From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Noun edit
luna f (Latin spelling, plural lunas)
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Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
- Lūna (for the sense "the Moon" and the goddess)
Etymology edit
From Old Latin losna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂, which is derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.
Cognates include Old Church Slavonic лꙋна (luna).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈluː.na/, [ˈɫ̪uːnä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.na/, [ˈluːnä]
Noun edit
lūna f (genitive lūnae); first declension
- (astronomy) a moon
- (figuratively) moonlight, moon shine
- (figuratively) a month
- (figuratively) a night
- a crescent shape
- (alchemy, chemistry) silver
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | lūna | lūnae |
Genitive | lūnae | lūnārum |
Dative | lūnae | lūnīs |
Accusative | lūnam | lūnās |
Ablative | lūnā | lūnīs |
Vocative | lūna | lūnae |
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References edit
- “luna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “luna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- luna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[6], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the sun, moon, is eclipsed: sol (luna) deficit, obscuratur
- the moon waxes, wanes: luna crescit; decrescit, senescit
- the sun, moon, is eclipsed: sol (luna) deficit, obscuratur
- “luna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “luna”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “luna”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “luna”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
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luna
Middle English edit
Noun edit
luna (uncountable)
- Alternative form of lune
References edit
- “luna, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 June 2018.
Neapolitan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
luna f (plural lune)
References edit
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 361: “la luna” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Occitan edit
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Etymology edit
From Old Occitan luna, from Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Pronunciation edit
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luna f (plural lunas)
Old Czech edit
Alternative forms edit
- łuna (alternative writing)
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lunà, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *láukšnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
luna f (poetic)
Declension edit
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | luna | luně | luny |
genitive | luny | lunú | lun |
dative | luně | lunama | lunám |
accusative | lunu | luně | luny |
vocative | luno | luně | luny |
locative | luně | lunú | lunách |
instrumental | lunú | lunama | lunami |
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.
Descendants edit
- Czech: luna
References edit
- Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “luna”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění
Papiamentu edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish luna (“moon”).
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luna
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin lūna. Doublet of łuna and Roksana.
Pronunciation edit
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luna f
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Further reading edit
- luna in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian edit
Pronunciation edit
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luna
- definite nominative/accusative singular of lună: the moon, the month
Sardinian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Noun edit
luna f (plural lunas)
References edit
- “luna” in Ditzionàriu in línia de sa limba e de sa cultura sarda (2016). Searchable in multiple languages at ditzionariu.sardegnacultura.it
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *luna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *láukšnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lúna f (Cyrillic spelling лу́на)
Declension edit
References edit
- “luna” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Sicilian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
luna f (plural luni)
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Slovak edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lunà.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
luna f (genitive singular luny, nominative plural luny, genitive plural lún, declension pattern of žena)
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Further reading edit
- “luna”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Slovene edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *lunà, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *láukšnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lúna f
Inflection edit
Feminine, a-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | lúna | ||
gen. sing. | lúne | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
lúna | lúni | lúne |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
lúne | lún | lún |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
lúni | lúnama | lúnam |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
lúno | lúni | lúne |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
lúni | lúnah | lúnah |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
lúno | lúnama | lúnami |
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂, which is derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-. Cognate with Galician lúa, Portuguese lua, Catalan lluna, French lune, Italian luna, Occitan luna and Romanian lună.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
luna f (plural lunas)
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Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Papiamentu: luna
Further reading edit
- “luna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014