lune

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.2 Usage notes 1.4 Related terms 1.5 Etymology 3 1.5.1 Noun 1.6 See also 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun 2.3.1 Derived terms 2.3.2 Related terms 3 Italian 3.1 Noun 3.2 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /lu:n/

[edit] Etymology 1

From Latin luna (“‘moon’”).

[edit] Noun

lune (plural lunes)

1. (obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.

   These dangerous, unsafe lunes i' the king. Shakespeare

[edit] Etymology 2

French lune, from Latin luna.

[edit] 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: 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. — Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner

2. anything crescent-shaped

[edit] Usage notes

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

[edit] Related terms

• lunar
• lunatic
• lunacy

[edit] Etymology 3

Alteration of lyon.

[edit] 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.

[edit] See also

• loon
• Monday

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From Latin lūna.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /lyn/
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[edit] Noun

lune f. (plural lunes)

1. (astronomy) moon.

[edit] Derived terms

• lunette

[edit] Related terms

• lunaire
• lunaison
• lunatique
• lundi
• lunule

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

lune f.

1. Plural form of luna.

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of elnu
• ulne