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lune¹

  • /luːn/
  • /lɪu̯n/

Rhymes with -uːn

Where it comes from

From Latin lūna (“moon”).

noun lunes

  1. obsolete A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak. Why woman, your husband is in his olde Lunes againe: […]

lune²

  • /luːn/
  • /lɪu̯n/

Rhymes with -uːn

Where it comes from

From French lune, from Latin luna.

noun 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. 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.

lune³

  • /luːn/
  • /lɪu̯n/

Rhymes with -uːn

Where it comes from

Alteration of lyon.

noun lunes

  1. A leash for a hawk. 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

Lune⁴

Where it comes from

Inherited from Northern Middle English Lune, probably of Romano-British (Latin) origin, such as Old English ea (“river”) Lōn, a phonetic adaptation of Latin Ialonus, a local Celtic god (and thus from Proto-Celtic *yalom (“clearing”)). Or, possibly from lune, referring to the river's shape.

proper noun

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

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@misc{lune_2026,
  title = {lune},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lune},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}