lune
English
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[edit]- IPA(key): /luːn/, /lɪu̯n/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -uːn
Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]lune (plural lunes)
- (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.
Etymology 2
[edit]From French lune, from Latin luna.
Noun
[edit]lune (plural lunes)
- (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.
- Anything crescent-shaped.
Usage notes
[edit]The corresponding convex shape is sometimes called a lune, but is, strictly, a lens.
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Etymology 3
[edit]Alteration of lyon.
Noun
[edit]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
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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[edit]Danish
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Low German lūne (“lunar phase, caprice”), from Latin lūna. Cognate with German Laune.
Noun
[edit]lune n (singular definite lunet, plural indefinite luner)
Inflection
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[edit]- (mood): humør
Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Norse lugna (“to calm”).
Verb
[edit]lune (imperative lun, infinitive at lune, present tense luner, past tense lunede, perfect tense er/har lunet)
Etymology 3
[edit]See lun (“warm”).
Adjective
[edit]lune
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lune f (plural lunes)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “lune”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Noun
[edit]lune f (plural lunis)
Italian
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[edit]lune f
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[edit]Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old French lune (“moon”), from Latin lūna.
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[edit]Noun
[edit]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, “Canon Yeoman's Prologue and Tale”, in Canterbury Tales:
- He vnderstood, and brymstoon by his brother, That out of Sol and Luna were ydrawe.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Synonyms
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[edit]- English: Luna
References
[edit]- “luna, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 June 2018.
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]lune
- Alternative form of loyne (“leash”)
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French lune, from Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Noun
[edit]lune f (plural lunes)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- lune on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Neapolitan
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Norwegian Bokmål
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Norwegian Nynorsk
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[edit]lune
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Pronunciation
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[edit]lune f (nominative singular lune)
- the Moon
Descendants
[edit]Slovak
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[edit]lune f
Slovene
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[edit]lúne
- inflection of lúna:
Tarantino
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Noun
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Walloon
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French lune, from Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
Pronunciation
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[edit]lune f
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