# lune
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /luːn/, /lɪu̯n/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːn

### Etymology 1

From Latin lūna (“moon”).

#### Noun

lune (plural lunes)
* (obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
** c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 54, column 1:Why woman, your husband is in his olde Lunes againe: […]
** c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 283, column 2:Theſe dangerous, vnſafe Lunes i'th' King, beſhrew them: / He muſt be told on't, and he ſhall […]
** 1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217:A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.

### Etymology 2

From French lune, from Latin luna.

#### Noun

lune (plural lunes)
* (geometry) 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.
* Anything crescent-shaped.

##### Usage notes

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

##### Derived terms

* demi-lune
* lune of Hippocrates
* spherical lune

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

Alteration of lyon.

#### Noun

lune (plural lunes)
* (hawking) A leash for a hawk.
** 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “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(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### Related terms

* lunar
* lunatic
* lunacy

### See also

* loon
* Monday

### Anagrams

* nuel

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /luːnə/, [ˈluːnə]

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

lune n (singular definite lunet, plural indefinite luner)
* mood
* whim, caprice
* humor, humour

##### 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)
* warm

### Etymology 3

See lun (“warm”).

#### Adjective

lune
* inflection of lun:
** definite singular
** plural

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French lune, from Old French lune, from Latin lūna, from Old Latin losna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-. Cognate with Spanish luna, Portuguese lua, Galician lúa, Catalan lluna, and Italian luna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lyn/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -yn

### Noun

lune f (plural lunes)
* the Moon
* any natural satellite of a planet
* (literary) a month, particularly a lunar month

#### Derived terms

* clair de lune
* con comme la Lune
* demander la lune
* être dans la lune
* lune de miel
* lunette
* pierre de lune
* pleine lune
* une fois toutes les lunes
* vieilles lunes

#### Related terms

* lunaire
* lunaison
* lunatique
* lundi
* lunule

#### Descendants

* Haitian Creole: lalin
* Mauritian Creole: lalin
* Seychellois Creole: lalin

### Further reading

* “lune”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

### Noun

lune f (plural lunis)
* moon

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlu.ne/
* Rhymes: -une
* Hyphenation: lù‧ne

### Noun

lune f
* plural of luna

### Anagrams

* ulne

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* luna

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈliu̯n(ə)/

#### Noun

lune (uncountable)
* (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.
* (rare, sometimes capitalised) A white, precious metal; silver.
** 1395, Chaucer, “Canon Yeoman's Prologue and Tale”, in Canterbury Tales:He vnderstood, and brymstoon by his brother, That out of Sol and Luna were ydrawe.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### 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.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

lune
* Alternative form of loyne (“leash”)

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French lune, from Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

### Noun

lune f (plural lunes)
* moon
* lunation; lunar month

#### Descendants

* French: lune
** Haitian Creole: lalin
** Mauritian Creole: lalin
** Seychellois Creole: lalin

### References

* lune on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

## Neapolitan
### Noun

lune
* plural of luna

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Adjective

lune
* definite singular/plural of lun

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Adjective

lune
* definite singular/plural of lun

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

### Pronunciation

IPA: /lunə/

### Noun

lune f (nominative singular lune)
* the Moon

#### Descendants

* Bourguignon: leugne
* Middle French: lune
** French: lune
*** Haitian Creole: lalin
*** Mauritian Creole: lalin
*** Seychellois Creole: lalin
* Norman: leune
* Walloon: lune

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈluɲe]

### Noun

lune f
* dative/locative singular of luna

## Slovene
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lùːnɛ/

### Noun

lúne
* inflection of lúna:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative plural

## Tarantino
### Etymology

From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

### Noun

lune
* moon

## Walloon
### Etymology

From Old French lune, from Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lyn/

### Noun

lune f
* moon