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English[]

Pronunciation[]

Etymology 1[]

From Latin luna (moon).

Noun[]

Singular
Lune

Plural
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  1. (obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
    These dangerous, unsafe lunes i' the king. Shakespeare

Etymology 2[]

French lune, from Latin luna.

Noun[]

Singular
Lune

Plural
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Lune ({{{1}}})

  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: 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. — Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
  2. anything crescent-shaped

Usage notes[]

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

Related terms[]

Etymology 3[]

Alteration of lyon.

Noun[]

Singular
Lune

Plural
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  1. (hawking) A leash for a hawk.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VI:
      than he was ware of a faucon com over his hede fleyng towarde an hyghe elme, and longe lunes aboute her feete.

See also[]


French[]

Etymology[]

From Latin lūna.

Pronunciation[]

Noun[]

Lune f. (plural Lunes)

  1. (astronomy) moon.

Derived terms[]

Related terms[]

  • lunaire
  • lunaison
  • lunatique
  • lundi
  • lunule

Italian[]

Noun[]

lune f.

  1. Plural form of luna.

Anagrams[]

  • elnu,
  • ulne

Old French[]

Etymology[]

Latin luna.

Noun[]

Lune f. (nominative singular lune)

  1. the Moon

Descendants[]

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