luna

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

English

WOTD – 28 December 2012

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lūna (“moon; month; crescent”).

Pronunciation

Noun

luna (plural lunas)

  1. (entomology) A luna moth: a member of species Actias luna.
    • 1944, Elizabeth Enright, Then There Were Five,[1] Farrar & Rinehart, page 80:
      “Gee,” whispered Oliver. He sat there staring. “A luna! I never thought I’d see a real luna!”
    • 1969, Sterling North, “An Introduction to Butterflies and Moths”, in Boys’ Life, May 1969 issue, Boy Scouts of America, page 64:
      On the previous evening we had discovered with delight a luna with the fabulous moons, one on each pale green wing.
    • 2010, Sally Roth (contributor), in Judy Pray (compiler), Garden Wisdom & Know-How: Everything You Need to Know to Plant, Grow, and Harvest, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 348:
      Spray BT on your young oak to protect against gypsy moths, and you wipe out future lunas, cecropias, and everything else on the leaves, along with the pests.
  2. (Christianity, chiefly Catholicism and Anglicanism) A lunette: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance. [from 19th c.][1]
    • 1907 May, “Dominicanus”, “The Rosary and the Blessed Sacrament”, in the Dominican Friars, The Rosary Magazine, Volume 30, Number 5, page 494:
      The Bread of Angels is first taken from the tabernacle, where it rests in the luna, and placed upon the altar, covered with a corporal. After genuflecting, the priest puts the luna containing the Blessed Sacrament on its throne—the monstrance—and elevates it […]
    • 1917, John F. Sullivan, The Externals of the Catholic Church, BiblioLife, LLC (2009), →ISBN, pages 115–116:
      This receptacle is called a “luna” or “lunula” (a moon, or a little moon), and has glass on either side, so that the Host may be seen when enclosed therein. […] […] ¶ The ciborium, the pyx and luna of the ostensorium are blessed with a simpler formula than that used for the chalice, and […] […] ¶ The chalice, the paten, the luna and the pyx are sacred things, true sacramentals, and are worthy of deepest reverence; for […]
    • 2007, John Trigilio and Kenneth Brighenti, The Catholicism Answer Book: The 300 Most Frequently Asked Questions, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 156:
      The luna, which is a piece of glass in the shape of a moon, contains the Blessed Sacrament, previously consecrated. The luna is then placed in the middle of the sunburst of the monstrance.
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hawaiian word luna (“leader; supervisor”).[2]

Noun

luna (plural luna or lunas)

  1. (Hawaii) A foreman on a plantation.
    • 1922, U. G. Murphy, “The Japanese Problem in Hawaii: How the Task of Christianizing and Americanizing the Oriental is Progressing”, in The Friend, Volume 91, Number 6 (June 1922) page 130:
      There are several reasons why the Hawaiian-born Japanese boys and girls do not take kindly to plantation labor, but one of the chief reasons is the objection to the kind of lunas who oversee the work of the laborers.
    • 1959, James Michener, Hawaii (novel),[2] Fawcett Crest (1986), →ISBN, page 737:
      […] haoles could not visualize Chinese or Japanese in positions of authority. And from sad experience, the great plantation owners had discovered that the Americans they could get to serve as lunas were positively no good. Capable Americans expected office jobs and incapable ones were unable to control the Oriental […]
    • 2000, Sally Engle Merry, Colonizing Hawai'i: the cultural power of law, page 321:
      After the day was over I went to the luna to count my day but he would not. Then I went to him the second time and he said he would not put it down.
    • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 35:
      Capital punishment was outlawed by the government but some plantation managers and luna still delivered lashings and other forms of abuse.

Usage notes

  • This noun, though inflected as an English word (singular luna, plural lunas), is frequently italicized as a loanword.

References

  1. ^ “luna” in Don S. Armentrout and Robert Boak Slocum (editors), An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church: A User-Friendly Reference for Episcopalians, Church Publishing, Inc. (2000), →ISBN.
  2. ^ 1986, Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian, revised and enlarged edition (University of Hawaii Press)

Anagrams

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin lūna.

Noun

luna f (plural lunas)

  1. moon

References

Cebuano

Etymology

cf. Malay duma

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: lu‧nâ

Noun

luna

  1. one's proper place under the sun
    Balik sa imong luna aron walay gubot.
    Return to your proper place to avoid trouble.
  2. room, accommodation
    May luna pa ba ko sa kinabuhi mo?
    Is there still room for me in your life?

Verb

luna

  1. pahi~ - to put things in order
    Palad ang mipahiluna nga magkita sila.
    It was arranged by fate that they meet.

Chavacano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish luna (“moon”).

Noun

luna

  1. moon

Czech

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Church Slavonic лꙋна (luna), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Slavic *lunà, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *lewk-. Cognates include Latin luna, Ancient Greek λύχνος (lúkhnos), Old Prussian lauxnos and Middle Irish luan.

Noun

luna f

  1. moon

Declension

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Synonyms

Further reading

Esperanto

Etymology

From luno (“moon”) +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈluna]
  • Rhymes: -una
  • Hyphenation: lun‧a

Adjective

luna (accusative singular lunan, plural lunaj, accusative plural lunajn)

  1. (astronomy) lunar

Interlingua

Noun

luna (plural lunas)

  1. moon

Italian

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

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From Luna, 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

Noun

luna f (plural lune)

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it
  1. (colloquial, astronomy, by extension of Luna) a natural satellite
    Synonym: satellite naturale
  2. (archaic, literary) a month, moon
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri with Umberto Bosco, Giovanni Reggio, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell]‎[3], 12th edition, Firenze: Le Monnier, published 1994, →ISBN, Canto XXXIII, page 490, lines 22, 25-26:
      Breve pertugio dentro da la Muda, ¶ […] ¶ m'avea mostrato per lo suo forame ¶ più lune già, quand'io feci 'l mal sonno […]
      «A narrow perforation in the mew, ¶ […] ¶ had shown me through its opening ¶ many moons already, when I dreamed the evil dream […]
  3. (archaic, figuratively, by extension) a time of the year
  4. (alchemy) silver
  5. (heraldry) a full moon (as opposed to a crescent)

Derived terms

Anagrams

Latin

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia la
lūna (the Moon)

Alternative forms

  • Lūna (for the sense "the Moon")

Etymology

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From Old Latin losna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂, which is derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.

Cognates include Old Church Slavonic лꙋна (luna).

Pronunciation

Noun

lūna f (genitive lūnae); first declension

  1. the Moon
  2. (figuratively) a month
  3. (figuratively) a night
  4. a crescent shape

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lūna lūnae
Genitive lūnae lūnārum
Dative lūnae lūnīs
Accusative lūnam lūnās
Ablative lūnā lūnīs
Vocative lūna lūnae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Eastern Romance:
    • Balkan-Romance:
      • Aromanian: lunã
      • Istro-Romanian: lurĕ
      • Romanian: lună
  • Southern Romance:
  • Western Romance:
  • Non-Romance:

See also

References

  • “luna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “luna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • luna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the sun, moon, is eclipsed: sol (luna) deficit, obscuratur
    • the moon waxes, wanes: luna crescit; decrescit, senescit
  • “luna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “luna”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “luna”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • “luna”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Lindu

Noun

luna

  1. pillow

Middle English

Noun

luna (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of lune

References

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin lūna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈluː.na/
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Noun

luna f (plural lune)

  1. moon

Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Occitan luna, from Latin lūna.

Pronunciation

Noun

luna f (plural lunas)

  1. moon

Papiamentu

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish luna (“moon”).

Noun

luna

  1. moon
  2. month

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lunà.

Noun

luna f

  1. (archaic) moon

Declension

Declension of luna
singular plural
nominative luna luny
genitive luny lun
dative lunie lunom
accusative lunę luny
instrumental luną lunami
locative lunie lunach
vocative luno luny

Derived terms

Further reading

Romanian

Noun

luna f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of lună

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lunà.

Pronunciation

Noun

luna f (Cyrillic spelling луна)

  1. (dated, now rare) moon

Synonyms

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin lūna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈluna/
  • Hyphenation: lù‧na

Noun

luna f (plural luni)

  1. moon

Derived terms

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lunà, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂, from *lewk-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈluna/
  • Hyphenation: lu‧na

Noun

luna f

  1. (archaic, poetic) moon

Declension

Declension of luna
singular plural
nominative luna luny
genitive luny lún
dative lune lunám
accusative lunu luny
locative lune lunách
instrumental lunou lunami

Synonyms

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “luna”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lunà.

Pronunciation

Noun

lúna f

  1. moon

Inflection

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Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. lúna
gen. sing. lúne
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		lúna lúni lúne
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		lúne lún lún
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		lúni lúnama lúnam
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		lúno lúni lúne
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		lúni lúnah lúnah
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		lúno lúnama lúnami

Synonyms

See also

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂, which is derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-. Cognate with Galician lúa, Portuguese lua, Catalan lluna, French lune, Italian luna, Occitan luna and Romanian lună.

Pronunciation

Noun

luna f (plural lunas)

  1. moon

Derived terms

Further reading

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