different between lunar vs palimpsest

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

Etymology

From Latin palimps?stus, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos, “scraped again”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?pæl?mps?st/

Noun

palimpsest (plural palimpsests)

1. A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written.
2. (archaic) Monumental brasses that have been reused by engraving of the blank back side.
3. (astronomy) Circular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity.
4. (geology) Geological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface.
5. (computing) Memory that has been erased and re-written.
6. (cultural studies) The partial erasure of or superimposition on an older society or culture by a newer one.
7. Something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form.
   • 2005, Patrick Radden Keefe, Chatter:

     Miraculously, the Stasi's record of Garton Ash's years in Berlin remained intact, and in his extraordinary book The File he recalls going back to Berlin, sifting through the material, and piecing together those years for himself. The result is a palimpsest of memories, observations recorded by informants and agents, and the recollections in his own diaries at that time.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:palimpsest.

Synonyms

• codex rescriptus

Derived terms

• palimpsestic

Translations

Verb

palimpsest (third-person singular simple present palimpsests, present participle palimpsesting, simple past and past participle palimpsested)

1. To scrape clean, as in parchment, for reuse.
2. On paper: to reuse, often by erasure or change of pen direction or color. Especially fueled by Earth Day.

   Typically refers to a multi-layered work, e.g.: new ads covering old on a roadside sign.

See also

• pentimento

Anagrams

• past simple, simple past, simple-past

Czech

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos)

Noun

palimpsest m

1. palimpsest

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos)

Noun

palimpsest c (singular definite palimpsesten, plural indefinite palimpsester)

1. palimpsest

Declension

References

• “palimpsest” in Den Danske Ordbog

Polish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos)

Noun

palimpsest m inan

1. palimpsest

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French palimpseste, from Latin palimps?stus, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos, “scraped again”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pa.limp?sest]

Noun

palimpsest n (plural palimpseste)

1. palimpsest

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal?mpsest/
• Hyphenation: pa?lim?psest

Noun

palìmpsest m (Cyrillic spelling ??????????)

1. palimpsest

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (palímps?stos)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /palimpsé?st/

Noun

palimps??st m inan

1. palimpsest

Inflection