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4-letter words (1 found)

LUNE,

3-letter words (3 found)

LEU,LUN,ULE,

2-letter words (5 found)

EL,EN,NE,NU,UN,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 10 words from lune according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of lune

lune ulne lnue nlue unle nule luen ulen leun elun ueln euln lneu nleu lenu elnu nelu enlu unel nuel uenl eunl neul enul

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Definitions and meaning of lune

lune

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /luːn/, /lɪu̯n/
  • Rhymes: -uːn

Etymology 1

From Latin lūna (moon).

Noun

lune (plural lunes)

  1. (obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.

Etymology 2

From French lune, from Latin luna.

Noun

lune (plural lunes)

  1. (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.
  2. Anything crescent-shaped.
Usage notes

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

Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

Alteration of lyon.

Noun

lune (plural lunes)

  1. (hawking) A leash for a hawk.

Related terms

  • lunar
  • lunatic
  • lunacy

See also

  • loon
  • Monday

Anagrams

  • nuel

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
  • (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)

  1. warm

Etymology 3

See lun (warm).

Adjective

lune

  1. inflection of lun:
    1. definite singular
    2. 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(key): /lyn/
  • Rhymes: -yn

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

  • 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)

  1. moon

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlu.ne/
  • Rhymes: -une
  • Hyphenation: lù‧ne

Noun

lune f

  1. plural of luna

Anagrams

  • ulne

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

  • luna

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈliu̯n(ə)/

Noun

lune (uncountable)

  1. (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.
  2. (rare, sometimes capitalised) A white, precious metal; silver.
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

  1. Alternative form of loyne (leash)

Middle French

Etymology

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

Noun

lune f (plural lunes)

  1. moon
  2. 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

  1. plural of luna

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

lune

  1. definite singular/plural of lun

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

lune

  1. definite singular/plural of lun

Old French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /lunə/

Noun

lune f (nominative singular lune)

  1. 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(key): [ˈluɲe]

Noun

lune f

  1. dative/locative singular of luna

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lùːnɛ/

Noun

lúne

  1. inflection of lúna:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

Tarantino

Etymology

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

Noun

lune

  1. moon

Walloon

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lyn/

Noun

lune f

  1. moon

Source: wiktionary.org