lune

• IPA^(key): /luːn/, /lɪu̯n/

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• Rhymes: -uːn

From Latin lūna (“moon”).

lune (plural lunes)

1. (obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 54, column 1:

     Why woman, your husband is in his olde Lunes againe: […]

   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 283, column 2:

     Theſe dangerous, vnſafe Lunes i'th' King, beſhrew them: / He muſt be told on't, and he ſhall […]

   • 1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217:

     A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.

From French lune, from Latin luna.

lune (plural lunes)

1. (geometry) 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.

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

Alteration of lyon.

lune (plural lunes)

1. (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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• lunar
• lunatic
• lunacy

• loon
• Monday

• nuel

• IPA^(key): /luːnə/, [ˈluːnə]

From Middle Low German lūne (“lunar phase, caprice”), from Latin lūna. Cognate with German Laune.

lune n (singular definite lunet, plural indefinite luner)

1. mood
2. whim, caprice
3. humor, humour

• (mood): humør

From Old Norse lugna (“to calm”).

lune (imperative lun, infinitive at lune, present tense luner, past tense lunede, perfect tense er/har lunet)

1. warm

See lun (“warm”).

lune

1. inflection of lun:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Inherited from Middle French lune, from Old French lune, from Latin lūna, from Old Latin losna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-. Cognate with Spanish luna, Portuguese lua, Galician lúa, Catalan lluna, and Italian luna.

• IPA^(key): /lyn/

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• Rhymes: -yn

lune f (plural lunes)

1. the Moon
2. any natural satellite of a planet
3. (literary) a month, particularly a lunar month

• lunaire
• lunaison
• lunatique
• lundi
• lunule

• Haitian Creole: lalin
• Mauritian Creole: lalin
• Seychellois Creole: lalin

• “lune”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

lune f (plural lunis)

1. moon

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.ne/
• Rhymes: -une
• Hyphenation: lù‧ne

lune f

1. plural of luna

• ulne

From Old French lune (“moon”), from Latin lūna.

• luna

• IPA^(key): /ˈliu̯n(ə)/

lune (uncountable)

1. (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.
2. (rare, sometimes capitalised) A white, precious metal; silver.
   • 1395, Chaucer, “Canon Yeoman's Prologue and Tale”, in Canterbury Tales:

     He vnderstood, and brymstoon by his brother, That out of Sol and Luna were ydrawe.

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• mone
• (planet): Lucyna, Diane, Phebe

• English: Luna

• “luna, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 June 2018.

lune

1. Alternative form of loyne (“leash”)

From Old French lune, from Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

lune f (plural lunes)

1. moon
2. lunation; lunar month

• French: lune
  • Haitian Creole: lalin
  • Mauritian Creole: lalin
  • Seychellois Creole: lalin

• lune on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

lune

1. plural of luna

lune

1. definite singular/plural of lun

lune

1. definite singular/plural of lun

From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

IPA^(key): /lunə/

lune f (nominative singular lune)

1. the Moon

• Bourguignon: leugne
• Middle French: lune
  • French: lune
    • Haitian Creole: lalin
    • Mauritian Creole: lalin
    • Seychellois Creole: lalin
• Norman: leune
• Walloon: lune

• IPA^(key): [ˈluɲe]

lune f

1. dative/locative singular of luna

• IPA^(key): /lùːnɛ/

lúne

1. inflection of lúna:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

lune

1. moon

From Old French lune, from Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

• IPA^(key): /lyn/

lune f

1. moon