lune
English
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Etymology 1
Noun
lune (plural lunes)
- (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
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From French lune, from Latin luna.
Noun
lune (plural lunes)
- 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.
- Anything crescent-shaped.
Usage notes
The corresponding convex shape is sometimes called a lune, but is, strictly, a lens.
Etymology 3
Alteration of lyon.
Noun
lune (plural lunes)
- (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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Danish
Pronunciation
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)
Inflection
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)
Etymology 3
See lun (“warm”).
Adjective
lune
French
Etymology
From Old French lune, from Latin lūna, from Old Latin losna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lowksneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.
Pronunciation
Noun
lune f (plural lunes)
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Further reading
- “lune”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian
Etymology
Noun
lune f (plural lunis)
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -une
Noun
lune f
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Middle English
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Etymology
From Old French lune (“moon”), from Latin lūna.
Pronunciation
Noun
lune (uncountable)
- (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.
- (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.
- 1395, Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "Canon Yeoman's Prologue and Tale".
Synonyms
Descendants
- English: Luna
References
- “luna (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 June 2018.
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Adjective
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Old French
Etymology
Noun
lune f (nominative singular lune)
- the Moon
Descendants
- French: lune
Tarantino
Noun
lune
Walloon
Etymology
From Old French lune, from Latin lūna.
Noun
lune f
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