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English
Pronunciation
IPA: /lu:n/
Etymology 1
From Latin luna �moon�.
Noun
lune (plural lunes)
- (obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
#: These dangerous, unsafe lunes i' the king. w:Shakespeare|Shakespeare
Etymology 2
French lune#French|lune, from Latin luna.
Noun
lune
- a figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicricles
#:*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
Related terms
lunar
lunatic
lunacy
See also
loon
Monday
Category:Latin derivations
Category:Shakespeare Quotes
French
Etymology
Latin luna.
Pronunciation
IPA: /lyn/
Noun
lune f
- the moon.
Translations
Italian: luna f
Latin: luna
Spanish: luna f
Related terms
lunaire
lunaison
lunatique
lundi
lunule
Italian
Noun
lune f
- plural of|luna|lang=Italian
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