different between lunatic vs lune

English

Alternative forms

• lunatick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English lunatik, from Old French lunatique, from Late Latin lunaticus (“moonstruck”), derived from Latin luna (“moon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu?n?t?k/

Noun

lunatic (plural lunatics)

1. An insane person.

Synonyms

• moonling
• See also Thesaurus:mad person

Translations

Adjective

lunatic (comparative more lunatic, superlative most lunatic)

1. Crazed, mad, insane, demented.

Synonyms

• crazed, insane, mad, demented, maniacal, psychotic, crazed; see also Thesaurus:insane

Translations

Anagrams

• cut nail, tunical

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu?na.tik/

Etymology 1

From Latin l?n?ticus, equivalent to lun? +? -atic.

Alternative forms

• lunatec

Noun

lunatic m (plural lunatici)

1. somnambulist, sleepwalker
2. (rare) dullard, fool, scatterbrain

Declension

Synonyms

• (sleepwalker): somnambul, somnambulist, noctambul
• (fool): prost?nac, cretin

Adjective

lunatic m or n (feminine singular lunatic?, masculine plural lunatici, feminine and neuter plural lunatice)

1. (popular, rare) born in the same month as another

Declension

Related terms

• lun?

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French lunatique, Italian lunatico.

Adjective

lunatic m or n (feminine singular lunatic?, masculine plural lunatici, feminine and neuter plural lunatice)

1. (rare) having hallucinations
2. (rare) fantastic, unreal, bizarre
3. having unusual or strange ideas and behavior
4. (rare) fearful

Declension

See also

• z?p?cit

Further reading

• lunatic in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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