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Webster 1913 Edition

Lune

Lune

(lūn)
,
Noun.
[L.
luna
moon: cf. F.
lune
. See
Luna
.]
1.
Anything in the shape of a half moon.
[R.]
2.
(Geom.)
A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles.
3.
A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
[Obs.]
These dangerous, unsafe
lunes
i’ the king.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Lune

LUNE

,
Noun.
[L. luna, the moon.]
1.
Any thing in the shape of a half-moon. [Little used.]
2.
A fit of lunacy or madness, or a freak. [Not used.]
3.
A leash; as the lune of a hawk.

Definition 2024

Lune

Lune

See also: lune, luné, luñè, and l'une

English

Proper noun

Lune

  1. A river in Lancashire, England, which passes Lancaster.

Tarantino

Proper noun

Lune

  1. the Moon

lune

lune

See also: Lune, luné, luñè, and l'une

English

Noun

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.

Etymology 2

From French lune, from Latin luna.

Noun

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

Usage notes

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

Related terms

Etymology 3

Alteration of lyon.

Noun

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

See also

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /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)

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

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)

  1. warm

Etymology 3

See lun ‎(“warm”).

Adjective

lune

  1. definite and plural of lun

French

Etymology

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-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lyn/

Noun

lune f ‎(plural lunes)

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

Derived terms

Related terms

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin lūna.

Noun

lune f ‎(plural lunis)

  1. moon

Italian

Noun

lune f

  1. plural of luna

Anagrams

Novial

Noun

lune ‎(plural lunes)

  1. moon

Old French

Etymology

From Latin lūna.

Noun

lune f ‎(nominative singular lune)

  1. the Moon

Descendants

Tarantino

Noun

lune

  1. moon

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French lune, from Latin lūna.

Noun

lune f

  1. moon

Etymology

From Latin luna ‎(“moon”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /luːn/

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