different between lune vs lyne

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

English

Noun

lyne (countable and uncountable, plural lynes)

1. Obsolete form of line.
2. Obsolete form of linen.

   • Nor any weaver, which his work doth boast
     In diaper, in damask, or in lyne,
     Might in their diverse cunning ever dare
     With this so curious net-work to compare.

Anagrams

• -enyl, enyl, leyn

Danish

Etymology

See lyn (“lightning”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ly?n?/, [?ly?n?]

Verb

lyne (imperative lyn, infinitive at lyne, present tense lyner, past tense lynede, perfect tense er/har lynet)

1. zip (to close with a zip fastener)
2. lighten, lightning (to produce lightning)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lyn, line, lin, lynye, lyny

Etymology 1

From Old English l?n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?n/, /lin/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

lyne (uncountable)

1. A plant of the genus Linum, especially Linum usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers.
2. The fibers of Linum usitatissimum, grown and spun for use in textiles.
3. Cloth woven from flax; linen.

Synonyms

• flex

Descendants

• English: line, linseed (in compound with seed)
• Yola: leen

References

• “l??n, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 April 2018.

Etymology 2

Adjective

lyne

1. Alternative form of lynnen

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li?n(?)/

Noun

lyne

1. Alternative form of lynde

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ly?.n?/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From lyn n (“lightning”).

Alternative forms

• ljona, lyna

Verb

lyne (present tense lyner, past tense lynte, past participle lynt, passive infinitive lynast, present participle lynande, imperative lyn)

1. (impersonal, intransitive) to produce lightning

2. (intransitive) to emit one or more flashes, to gleam
3. (intransitive, of eyes, idiomatic) to light up (in rage)
4. (intransitive) to flash; to move very fast

Etymology 2

From the adjective ly (“lew, tepid”).

Alternative forms

• lyna

Verb

lyne (present tense lynar, past tense lyna, past participle lyna, passive infinitive lynast, present participle lynande, imperative lyn)

1. (ergative) to lew

References

• “lyne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “lyne” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Anagrams

• ylen