See also luñè
English[]
Pronunciation[]
- IPA: /lu:n/
Etymology 1[]
From Latin luna (“‘moon’”).
Noun[]
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Lune ({{{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[]
Noun[]
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Lune ({{{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
- 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[]
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Lune ({{{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.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VI:
See also[]
- loon
- Monday
French[]
Etymology[]
From Latin lūna.
Pronunciation[]
Noun[]
Lune f. (plural Lunes)
- (astronomy) moon.
Derived terms[]
Related terms[]
- lunaire
- lunaison
- lunatique
- lundi
- lunule
Italian[]
Noun[]
lune f.
- Plural form of luna.
Anagrams[]
- elnu,
- ulne
Old French[]
Etymology[]
Latin luna.
Noun[]
Lune f. (nominative singular lune)
- the Moon
Descendants[]
- French: lune
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