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luna¹

  • /ˈluːnə/ UK
  • /ˈlʉwnə/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /ˈlunə/ US
  • /ˈlʉːnə/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /ˈlʉnə/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
  • /ˈlɪʊnə/ Wales

Sounds like lunar, looner (non-rhotic) · Rhymes with -uːnə

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin lūna (“moon; month; crescent”).

noun lunas

  1. A luna moth: a member of species Actias luna. “Gee,” whispered Oliver. He sat there staring. “A luna! I never thought I’d see a real luna!”
  2. A lunette: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance. The Bread of Angels is first taken from the tabernacle, where it rests in the luna, and placed upon the altar, covered with a corporal. After genuflecting, the priest puts the luna containing the Blessed Sacrament on its throne—the monstrance—and elevates it […]

    Similar: lunette, lunula

luna²

Where it comes from

From Hawaiian luna (“leader; supervisor”).

noun luna · lunas

  1. Hawaii A foreman on a plantation. There are several reasons why the Hawaiian-born Japanese boys and girls do not take kindly to plantation labor, but one of the chief reasons is the objection to the kind of lunas who oversee the work of the laborers.

Luna³

  • /ˈluːnə/
  • /ˈɫʉːnə/ Australia

Rhymes with -uːnə

Where it comes from

From Middle English lune, luna (“the moon”), from Latin lūna/Lūna, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂. Doublet of Lua and Roxane.

proper noun

  1. Roman The sister of Aurora and Sol; the goddess of the moon; equivalent to the Greek Selene.
  2. poetic The Earth's Moon. Luna that ne'er shines by day.
  3. A female given name from Latin. - - - and it so happened, that in one of old Bryan's daughters named Luna, or more familiarly Loony, he perceived, or thought he perceived, some imaginary similarity in form and air to the lovely apparition.

noun

  1. rare, uncountable Argent (silver), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets. 4. Luna, a Mantle of Estate, Mars doubled Ermine, ouched Sol, garnished with Strings fastned thereunto fretways dependent, and tasselled of the same. [...] These Arms do belong to the Town of Beckbock in Wales.
  2. obsolete, uncountable Silver. The association of the heavenly bodies with known metals and also with human organs and destinies goes back to ancient Chaldea, the land of astrologers. In Chaucer’s words: ‘The seven bodies eek, lo hear anon. Sol gold is, and Luna silver we declare; Mars yron, Mercurie is quyksilver; Saturnian leed

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: moth, glass, window, lune, windshield, crescent, amusement, moon, month, aceves, nebraska, natural satellite, cynthia, selene, orb, hina

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@misc{luna_2026,
  title = {luna},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/luna},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}