lune

See also luñè, Lune, and luné

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /luːn/

Etymology 1

From Latin luna (“moon”).

Noun

lune (plural lunes)

1. (obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak
   • 1623, Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale:

     These dangerous, unsafe lunes i' the king.

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.

Related terms

• lunar
• lunatic
• lunacy

Etymology 3

Alteration of lyon.

Noun

lune (plural lunes)

1. (hawking) A leash for a hawk
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VI:

     than he was ware of a faucon com over his hede fleyng towarde an hyghe elme, and longe lunes aboute her feete.

See also

• loon
• Monday

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /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

    Inflection of lune

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	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, past participle er/har lunet)

1. warm

Etymology 3

See lun (“warm”).

Adjective

lune

1. definite and plural of lun

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French

Etymology

From Latin lūna.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lyn/

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Noun

lune f (plural lunes)

1. (astronomy) moon.

Derived terms

• lunette

Related terms

• lunaire
• lunaison
• lunatique
• lundi
• lunule

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Italian

Noun

lune f

1. Plural form of luna

Anagrams

• ulne

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Novial

Noun

lune

1. moon

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Old French

Etymology

Latin luna.

Noun

lune f (nominative singular lune)

1. the Moon

Descendants

• French: lune

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Tarantino

Noun

lune

1. moon

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Walloon

Etymology

From Latin lūna.

Noun

lune f

1. moon