lune
EnglishEdit
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Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
lune (plural lunes)
- (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 2Edit
From French lune, from Latin luna.
NounEdit
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.
- Anything crescent-shaped.
Usage notesEdit
The corresponding convex shape is sometimes called a lune, but is, strictly, a lens.
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Etymology 3Edit
Alteration of lyon.
NounEdit
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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DanishEdit
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Etymology 1Edit
From Middle Low German lūne (“lunar phase, caprice”), from Latin lūna. Cognate with German Laune.
NounEdit
lune n (singular definite lunet, plural indefinite luner)
InflectionEdit
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- (mood): humør
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Norse lugna (“to calm”).
VerbEdit
lune (imperative lun, infinitive at lune, present tense luner, past tense lunede, perfect tense er/har lunet)
Etymology 3Edit
See lun (“warm”).
AdjectiveEdit
lune
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lune f (plural lunes)
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Further readingEdit
- “lune”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
FriulianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
NounEdit
lune f (plural lunis)
ItalianEdit
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NounEdit
lune f
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Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old French lune (“moon”), from Latin lūna.
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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".
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DescendantsEdit
- English: Luna
ReferencesEdit
- “luna, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 June 2018.
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
lune
- Alternative form of loyne (“leash”)
Middle FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French mur, from Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
NounEdit
lune f (plural lunes)
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- lune on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
NeapolitanEdit
NounEdit
lune
Norwegian BokmålEdit
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lune
Norwegian NynorskEdit
AdjectiveEdit
lune
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
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NounEdit
lune f (nominative singular lune)
- the Moon
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SlovakEdit
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lune f
SloveneEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lúne
- inflection of lúna:
TarantinoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
NounEdit
lune
WalloonEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French lune, from Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
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NounEdit
lune f