lune

• IPA^(key): /luːn/

From Latin luna (“moon”).

lune (plural lunes)

1. (obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
   • 1623, Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale:

     These dangerous, unsafe lunes i' the king.

From French lune, from Latin luna.

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.
   • 1984, Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner:

     What he worried about was any eventual convexity, a shrinking, it might be, of the planet itself to some palpable curvature of whatever he would be standing on, so that he would be left sticking out like a projected radius, unsheltered and reeling across the empty lunes of his tiny sphere.

2. Anything crescent-shaped.

The corresponding convex shape is sometimes called a lune, but is, strictly, a lens.

Alteration of lyon.

lune (plural lunes)

1. (hawking) A leash for a hawk.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xvj, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:

     And thenne was he ware of a Faucon came fleynge ouer his hede toward an hyghe elme / and longe lunys aboute her feet / and she flewe vnto the elme to take her perche / the lunys ouer cast aboute a bough / And whanne she wold haue taken her flyghte / she henge by the legges fast / and syre launcelot sawe how he henge

• lunar
• lunatic
• lunacy

• loon
• Monday

• nuel

• IPA^(key): /luːnə/, [ˈluːnə]

From Middle Low German lūne (“lunar phase, caprice”), from Latin lūna. Cognate with German Laune.

lune n (singular definite lunet, plural indefinite luner)

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

• (mood): humør

From Old Norse lugna (“to calm”).

lune (imperative lun, infinitive at lune, present tense luner, past tense lunede, perfect tense er/har lunet)

1. warm

See lun (“warm”).

lune

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

From Old French lune, from Latin lūna, from Old Latin losna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lowksneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.

• IPA^(key): /lyn/

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lune f (plural lunes)

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

• lunette

• lunaire
• lunaison
• lunatique
• lundi
• lunule

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

From Latin lūna.

lune f (plural lunis)

1. moon

• Rhymes: -une

lune f

1. plural of luna

• ulne

• luna

From Old French lune (“moon”), from Latin lūna.

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.

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

• English: Luna

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

lune

1. definite singular and plural of lun

lune

1. definite singular and plural of lun

lune c (plural lunes)

1. moon

From Latin lūna.

lune f (nominative singular lune)

1. the Moon

• French: lune

lune

1. moon

From Old French lune, from Latin lūna.

lune f

1. moon