different between lunacy vs lune

English

Etymology

From lunatic +? -cy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?lu?.n?.si /, /?lju?.n?.si/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?lu?.n?.si /

Noun

lunacy (countable and uncountable, plural lunacies)

1. (of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity
   1. a cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases
   2. insanity implying legal irresponsibility.
2. Something deeply misguided.

Synonyms

• (state of being mad): insanity, madness, craziness, craze

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu?n/

Etymology 1

From Latin luna (“moon”).

Noun

lune (plural lunes)

1. (obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.

Etymology 2

From French lune, from Latin luna.

Noun

lune (plural lunes)

1. 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.
2. 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)

1. (hawking) A leash for a hawk.

Related terms

• lunar
• lunatic
• lunacy

See also

• loon
• Monday

Anagrams

• nuel

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu?n?/, [?lu?n?]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German l?ne (“lunar phase, caprice”), from Latin l?na. Cognate with German Laune.

Noun

lune n (singular definite lunet, plural indefinite luner)

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

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)

1. warm

Etymology 3

See lun (“warm”).

Adjective

lune

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

French

Etymology

From Old French lune, from Latin l?na, from Old Latin losna, from Proto-Italic *louksn?, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-. Cognate with Spanish luna, Portuguese lua, Galician lúa, Catalan lluna, and Italian luna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lyn/

Noun

lune f (plural lunes)

1. The Moon.
2. Any natural satellite of a planet.
3. (literary) A month, particularly a lunar month.

Derived terms

Related terms

• lunaire
• lunaison
• lunatique
• lundi
• lunule

Further reading

• “lune” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin l?na.

Noun

lune f (plural lunis)

1. moon

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -une

Noun

lune f

1. plural of luna

Anagrams

• ulne

Middle English

Alternative forms

• luna

Etymology

From Old French lune (“moon”), from Latin l?na.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?liu?n(?)/

Noun

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, Canterbury Tales, "Canon Yeoman's Prologue and Tale".

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

Synonyms

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

Descendants

• English: Luna

References

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

lune

1. definite singular/plural of lun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

lune

1. definite singular/plural of lun

Old French

Etymology

From Latin l?na.

Noun

lune f (nominative singular lune)

1. the Moon

Descendants

• French: lune

Slovak

Noun

lune f

1. dative/locative singular of luna

Slovene

Noun

lune

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

Tarantino

Noun

lune

1. moon

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French lune, from Latin l?na.

Noun

lune f

1. moon