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English

Etymology

From Middle English lunar (“shaped like the crescent moon”), from Latin l?n?ris (“of or pertaining to the moon, lunar”) (possibly through Middle French lunaire (modern French lunaire (“lunar”)), from l?na (“the Moon; crescent shape”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine”)) + -is (suffix forming adjectives).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l(j)u?n?/
• (General American) enPR: lo?o'n?r, IPA^(key): /?lun?/
• Rhymes: -u?n?(r)
• Hyphenation: lun?ar

Adjective

lunar (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon); Lunar.

   Synonyms: lunarlike, (obsolete) lunary, moonish, moonlike, moonly, selenic
2. Shaped like a crescent moon; lunate.
3. (chiefly historical) (Believed to be) influenced by the Moon, as in character, growth, or properties.
4. (alchemy, chemistry, historical) Of or pertaining to silver (which was symbolically associated with the Moon by alchemists).
5. (astronomy) Of or pertaining to travel through space between the Earth and the Moon, or exploration and scientific investigation of the Moon.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

lunar (plural lunars)

1. (anatomy) The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus in the wrist, which is shaped like a half-moon.

   Synonyms: intermedium, lunar bone, semilunar
2. (nautical, navigation) An observation of a lunar distance (“the angle between the Moon and another celestial body”), especially for establishing the longitude of a ship at sea.

Derived terms

• (anatomy): scapholunar

References

Further reading

• Moon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• lunar (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ulnar, urnal

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin l?n?ris.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /lu?na/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /lu?na?/

Adjective

lunar (masculine and feminine plural lunars)

1. lunar

Related terms

• lluna

Further reading

• “lunar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “lunar” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “lunar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “lunar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish lunar (“mole”).

Noun

lunar

1. (anatomy) mole

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?n?ris. Compare the inherited luar.

Adjective

lunar m or f (plural lunares)

1. lunar

Noun

lunar m (plural lunares)

1. mole, birthmark

Further reading

• “lunar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu?na???/

Adjective

lunar (not comparable)

1. lunar

   Synonym: lunarisch

Declension

Derived terms

• Lunarorbit
• semilunar
• translunar
• zirkumlunar

Further reading

• “lunar” in Duden online

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lu?na?/
• Hyphenation: lu?nar

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin l?n?ris. Cognate of inherited luar.

Adjective

lunar (plural lunares, comparable)

1. lunar

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish lunar, from Latin l?n?ris.

Noun

lunar m (plural lunares)

1. mole, birthmark

Further reading

• “lunar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French lunaire, from Latin lunaris.

Adjective

lunar m or n (feminine singular lunar?, masculine plural lunari, feminine and neuter plural lunare)

1. lunar

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin l?n?ris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu?na?/, [lu?na?]
• Hyphenation: lu?nar

Adjective

lunar (plural lunares)

1. lunar

Derived terms

Noun

lunar m (plural lunares)

1. mole, birthmark
2. polka dot

Related terms

• luna

Further reading

• “lunar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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