lune

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luːn/

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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[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

From French lune, from Latin luna.

Noun

lune (plural lunes)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• demi-lune
• spherical lune

 

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

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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)

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

• (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)

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lyn/

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• Rhymes: -yn

Noun

lune f (plural lunes)

1. the Moon
2. any natural satellite of a planet
3. (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)

1. moon

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lune f

1. 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)

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, Canterbury Tales, "Canon Yeoman's Prologue and Tale".

     He vnderstood, and brymstoon by his brother, That out of Sol and Luna were ydrawe.

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.

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

• 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

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

• Bourguignon: leugne
• Middle French: lune
  • French: lune
    • Haitian Creole: lalin
    • Mauritian Creole: lalin
    • Seychellois Creole: lalin
• Norman: leune
• Walloon: lune

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlune]

Noun

lune f

1. dative/locative singular of luna

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lùːnɛ/

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

• IPA^(key): /lyn/

Noun

lune f

1. moon