Luna

See also: luna, lunã, lună, łuna, łuną, łúna, and Łuna

English

Etymology

From Latin lūna, by way of Middle English lune, luna (“the moon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlunə/
• Rhymes: -uːnə

Proper noun

Luna

1. The name of Earth's moon.
2. (Roman mythology) The sister of Aurora and Sol; the goddess of the moon; equivalent to the Greek Selene.
3. A female given name from Latin.
   • 1837 James Hogg, "The Mysterious Bride", Talks and Sketches: The Shepherd's Calendar (Blackie & Son), page 343:

     - - - and it so happened, that in one of old Bryan's daughters named Luna, or more familiarly Loony, he perceived, or thought he perceived, some imaginary similarity in form and air to the lovely apparition.

   • 2003 J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 236:

     A few seconds later, Luna Lovegood emerged, trailing behind the rest of the class, a smudge of earth on her nose, and her hair tied in a knot on the top of her head.

4. A given name for a female pet.
5. (alchemy) Silver.

Coordinate terms

• Greco-Roman Moon Goddesses:
  • Artemis / Diana
  • Hecate / Trivia
  • Theia
  • Phoebe
  • Pandia
  • The Menae

Derived terms

• Luna County

Translations

Earth's moon — see Moon

See also

• (moon of Earth) Luna/‎Moon/‎moon ^{(Category: en:Moon) [edit]}

Anagrams

• Anlu, auln, luan, ulan, ulna, unal

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Catalan

Proper noun

Luna f

1. The Moon

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Cebuano

Etymology 1

From Spanish luna, from Latin lūna.

Proper noun

Luna

1. a female given name from Spanish

Etymology 2

From Spanish luna, from dialectal Aragonese luna (“lights”).

Proper noun

Luna

Etymology 3

From English luna, from Latin lūna, by way of Middle English lune, luna (“the moon”).

Proper noun

Luna

1. (Roman mythology) Luna; the goddess of the moon; the sister of Aurora and Sol;

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Danish

Proper noun

Luna

1. (Roman mythology) Luna
2. a female given name of modern usage.

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German

Proper noun

Luna

1. (Roman mythology) Luna
2. a female given name of modern usage.

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Italian

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Latin Lūna, from Old Latin losna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lowksneh₂, derived from the root *lewk- (“bright”).
Cognates include Armenian լուսին (lusin), Spanish luna, Portuguese lua, Romanian lună, Russian луна́ (luná)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.na/, [ˈl̺uːn̺ä]
• Rhymes: -una
• Homophone: luna
• Hyphenation: lù‧na

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Proper noun

Luna f

1. (astronomy, astrology) the Moon
   • c. 1226, Francis of Assisi, Cantico delle creature [Canticle of the Creatures]‎^[1], printed by the Biblioteca del Sacro Convento di San Francesco, page 2:

     Laudato ſi mi ſignore ᵱ ſora luna e le ſtelle, in celu lai foꝛmate clarite ⁊ p̃tioſe ⁊ belle.

     Praised be you, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in heaven you have made them clear and precious and beautiful.

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Inferno [Hell]”, in La divina commedia [The Divine Comedy]‎^[2], 1st edition, Foligno: Printed by Johannes Numeister and Evangelista Mei, published 1472, Canto VII, lines 64-66:

     che tutto l oro che ſotto la luna ¶ et che gia fu de queſte anime ſtanche ¶ none potrebbe farne poſar una

     « […] for all the gold that is beneath the moon, ¶ or ever has been, of these weary souls ¶ could never make a single one repose».

2. (mythology, Roman mythology) Luna

   Synonym: (Greek mythology) Selene

3. (heraldry) A full moon.
4. a female given name from Latin

   (derivated) Lunella, Lunetta, Lunina

5. a surname

Derived terms

• allunare
• luna
• luna park
• lunario
• mezzaluna; mezza luna

 

Related terms

• lunare
• lunaria
• lunatico
• lunato
• lunazione
• lunedì

 

Anagrams

• ulna

See also

Solar System in Italian · sistema solare (layout · text)
Star	Sole
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Mercurio	Venere	Terra	Marte	Cerere	Giove	Saturno	Urano	Nettuno	Plutone	Eris (Eride)
Notable moons	—	—	Luna	Fobos Deimos	—	Io Europa Ganimede Callisto	Mimas Encelado Teti Dione Rea Titano Giapeto	Miranda Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon	Tritone	Caronte	Disnomia

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Latin

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Lūna f sg (genitive Lūnae); first declension

1. Alternative form of lūna; the Moon
   • AD 334–7, Julius Firmicus Maternus (author), Wilhelm Kroll and Franz Skutsch (editors), Matheseos libri VIII, Leipzig: In aedibus B. G. Teubneri, volume I: Libros IV priores et quinti prooemium continens (1897), book iv, chapter i, § 10 (page 199, lines 16–19):

     Est itaque Luna aut synodica aut plena aut dichotomos aut menoides aut amficyrtos et per has mutata formas cursum menstrui luminis complet.

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Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Lūna
Genitive	Lūnae
Dative	Lūnae
Accusative	Lūnam
Ablative	Lūnā
Vocative	Lūna

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

The city's amphitheatre

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈluː.na/, [ˈɫ̪uːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.na/, [ˈluːnä]

Proper noun

Lūna f sg (genitive Lūnae); first declension

1. A city in Etruria, situated on the left bank of the Macra

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Lūna
Genitive	Lūnae
Dative	Lūnae
Accusative	Lūnam
Ablative	Lūnā
Vocative	Lūna
Locative	Lūnae

Derived terms

• Lūnēnsis

References

• Luna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Luna”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Slovene

Etymology

See lúna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lùːna/

Proper noun

Lúna f

1. the Moon (of Earth)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Lúna
genitive	Lúne
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Lúna
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Lúne
dative (dajȃlnik)	Lúni
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Lúno
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Lúni
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Lúno

Synonyms

• Mésec

See also

• lúna

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluna/

Etymology 1

From Latin lūna.

Proper noun

Luna f

1. Earth's Moon

   La Luna es el único satélite natural de la Tierra.

   The Moon is the Earth's only natural satellite.

2. a female given name of modern usage.

Etymology 2

From dialectal Aragonese luna (“lights”), a habitational name for someone living by an open courtyard.

Proper noun

Luna f

1. a surname

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Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Luna.

Proper noun

Luna

1. a female given name from Spanish