Luna

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluːnə/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɫʉːnə/

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• Rhymes: -uːnə

Proper noun

Luna

1. (Roman mythology) The sister of Aurora and Sol; the goddess of the moon; equivalent to the Greek Selene.
2. (chiefly science fiction or poetic) The name of Earth's moon; Moon.
   • 1868, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham, Edward Arber, The Rehearsal: With Illustrations from Previous Plays, Etc, page 129:

     Luna that ne'er shines by day.

   • 1896, The Era Almanack, Dramatic & Musical, page 22:

     He has but little prudence, no apprehension of consequences, and none of that melancholy which in tempraments of Luna and Venus is generally felt, and from which he is saved by the combination of Mars and Mercury.

   • 1909, Govind H. Keskar, Combined Introductory Astrology, page 14:

     The different visible shapes of Luna are called her phases.

   • 2011, Charles Lee Lesher, Aldrin Station - Rise of Luna:

     Lagrange point L1 is the perfect location for humanity's next major space station, the natural gateway to the moon. This one-of-a-kind point in space is located on the direct line between Earth and Luna about 200,000 miles from Earth, or conversely, a mere 39,000 miles above the geometric center of Luna's nearside.

3. A female given name from Latin.
   • 1837, James Hogg, “The Mysterious Bride”, in Talks and Sketches: The Shepherd's Calendar, Blackie & Son, page 343:

     - - - 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.

   • 2003, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 236:

     A few seconds later, Luna Lovegood emerged, trailing behind the rest of the class, a smudge of earth on her nose, and her hair tied in a knot on the top of her head.

Noun

Luna (uncountable)

1. (heraldry, rare) Argent (silver), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.
   • 1693, Richard Blome, The Art of Heraldry, in two parts ... second edition ..., pages 76-77:

     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.

   • 1718, Samuel Kent, The Grammar of Heraldry [...] Second Edition:

     George [...] Ist. Mars, three Lions passant guardant in Pale Sol, for the Arms of England, Impal'd with Scotland, i.e. Sol, a Lion rampant within a double Tressure counterflory Mars. 2d. Jupiter, three Fleurs de Lis Sol, for the Arms of France. 3d. Jupiter, an Irish Harp Sol, stringed Luna, for Ireland. 4th. Seme party per Pale, and per Chevron enarche, in the Ist Mars, two Lions passant guardant Sol, for Brunswick. In the 2d Partition Sol, semy of Hearts Mars, and a Lion rampant Jupiter, armed and langued of the First, for Luneburg. The base is Mars, a Horse currant Luna, over these last on an Inescocheon, Constantine's Crown.

   • 1735, Francis Nichols, The Irish Compendium [...] vol. III of the British Compendium, second edition, page 80:

     8. Tierce in Mantle, first Mars, two Lions passant-guardant in pale, Sol, for Brunswick; 2d Sol, Semi of Hearts proper, a Lion rampant Jupiter, for Lunenburgh; 3d, ente en Point, Mars, an Horse currant Luna, for Saxony.

   • 1737, Benjamin Martin, Bibliotheca Technologica: Or, a Philological Library, page 631:

     The third, the Ensign of Ireland, which is, Jupiter, an Harp Sol, stringed Luna.

2. (obsolete, alchemy, chemistry) Silver.

See also

• (moon of Earth) Luna/‎Moon/‎moon ^{(Category: en:Moon) [edit]}

Anagrams

• Alun, An-lu, Anlu, Lu'an, auln, luan, ulan, ulna, unal

Etymology 1

From Spanish luna, from Latin lūna.

Etymology 2

From Spanish luna, from dialectal Aragonese luna (“lights”).

Etymology 3

From English luna, from Latin lūna, by way of Middle English lune, luna (“the moon”).

Proper noun

Luna

1. (Roman mythology) Luna
2. a female given name of modern usage

Etymology

From Latin Luna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlunɑ/, [ˈlunɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -unɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): Lu‧na

Proper noun

Luna

1. a female given name

Etymology

(Roman mythology): Latin Lūna

Proper noun

Luna

1. (Roman mythology) Luna
2. a female given name of modern usage

Etymology

From Latin Lūna, from Old Latin losna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂, derived from the root *lewk- (“bright”). Cognates include Armenian լուսին (lusin), Spanish luna, Portuguese lua, Romanian lună, Russian луна́ (luná).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.na/

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• Homophone: luna
• Rhymes: -una
• Hyphenation: Lù‧na

Proper noun

Luna f

1. (astronomy, astrology) the Moon
   • c. 1226, Francis of Assisi, Cantico delle creature [Canticle of the Creatures]‎; copied, (manuscript), c. mid 13^th century, page 2:

     Lauꝺato ſi miſignore ꝑ ſora luna ele ſtelle. in celu lai foꝛmate clarite ⁊ p̄tioſe ⁊ belle. (Umbria)

     [Laudato si' mi' signore per sora luna e le stelle, in cielu l'hai formate clarite et preziose et belle.]

     Praised be you, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in heaven you have made them clear and precious and beautiful.

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 64–66; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     ["] […] tutto l’oro ch’è sotto la luna
     e che già fu, di quest’anime stanche
     non poterebbe farne posare una".

     " […] all the gold that is—and ever was—under the Moon couldn't make a single one of these tired souls rest."

   • 1516–1532, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto 34”, in Orlando furioso, stanza 67; republished as Santorre Debenedetti, editor, Bari: Laterza, 1928:

     Nel cerchio de la luna a menar t’aggio,
     che dei pianeti a noi piú prossima erra,
     perché la medicina che può saggio
     rendere Orlando, lá dentro si serra.

     I shall lead you to the circle of the Moon—which, among the planets, wanders closest to us—for the medicine that can make Orlando wise is hidden in there.

   • mid 1560s [29–19 BCE], “Libro primo”, in Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide, translation of Aeneis by Publius Vergilius Maro (in Classical Latin), lines 1204, 1207–1208; republished as L’Eneide di Virgilio‎, Florence: G. Barbera, 1892:

     Il biondo Iopa […]
     […]
     Cantò le vie che drittamente torte
     Rendon vaga la luna e buio il sole

     [original: crīnītus Iōpās […] canit errantem lūnam sōlisque labōres]

     The blond-haired Iopas […] sang of the straightforwardly contorted ways which make the Moon errant, and the Sun dark

   • 1810 [c. 8^th century BCE], “Libro XIX”, in Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade, translation of Ῑ̓λιάς (Īliás, Iliad) by Homer (in Epic Greek), lines 373–376; republished as Iliade di Omero‎, 4^th edition, Milan: Società tipografica dei classici italiani, 1825:

     […] s’imbracciò lo scudo,
     Che immenso e saldo di lontan splendea
     Come luna, o qual foco ai naviganti
     Sovr’alta apparso solitaria cima

     [original: αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα σάκος μέγα τε στιβαρόν τε
     εἵλετο, τοῦ δ’ ἀπάνευθε σέλας γένετ’ ἠΰτε μήνης.
     ὡς δ’ ὅτ’ ἂν ἐκ πόντοιο σέλας ναύτῃσι φανήῃ
     καιομένοιο πυρός, τό τε καίεται ὑψόθ’ ὄρεσφι
     σταθμῷ ἐν οἰοπόλῳ […]]

     autàr épeita sákos méga te stibarón te
     heíleto, toû d’ apáneuthe sélas génet’ ēǘte mḗnēs.
     hōs d’ hót’ àn ek póntoio sélas naútēisi phanḗēi
     kaioménoio purós, tó te kaíetai hupsóth’ óresphi
     stathmôi en oiopólōi […]

     he [Achilles] took up his shield, which—immense and steady—shone from the distance, as the Moon, or as a fire, appearing to seafarers upon a tall, lonely mountaintop

2. (mythology, Roman mythology) Luna

   Synonym: (Greek mythology) Selene

3. (heraldry) a full moon
4. a female given name from Latin

   (derived) Lunella, Lunetta, Lunina

5. a surname

See also

Anagrams

• ulna

Etymology

The same word as lūna (“moon”), taken as a proper noun.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈluː.na/, [ˈɫ̪uːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.na/, [ˈluːnä]

Proper noun

Lūna f sg (genitive Lūnae); first declension

1. (astronomy) Alternative letter-case form of lūna (“the Moon”)
   • AD 334–7, Julius Firmicus Maternus (author), Wilhelm Kroll and Franz Skutsch (editors), Matheseos libri VIII, Leipzig: In aedibus B. G. Teubneri, volume I: Libros IV priores et quinti prooemium continens (1897), book iv, chapter i, § 10 (page 199, lines 16–19):

     Est itaque Luna aut synodica aut plena aut dichotomos aut menoides aut amficyrtos et per has mutata formas cursum menstrui luminis complet.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (Roman mythology) Luna (the moon goddess)
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.883:

     Lūna regit mēnsīs

     Luna governs the months
     (See Luna (goddess).)

Proper noun

Lūna f sg (genitive Lūnae); first declension

1. A city in Etruria, situated on the left bank of the Macra

References

• Luna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Luna”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Lūna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.na/
• Rhymes: -una
• Syllabification: Lu‧na
• Homophone: luna

Proper noun

Luna f

1. (uncountable, Roman mythology) Luna (Roman goddess of the moon, sister of Aurora and Sol; equivalent to the Greek Selene)
2. (countable, rare) a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Luna

Further reading

• Luna in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Luna in PWN's encyclopedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian Lóna, from Old Church Slavonic ловьна (lovĭna), feminine of ловьнъ (lovĭnŭ), from ловъ (lovŭ) +‎ -ьнъ (-ĭnŭ).

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Proper noun

Luna f

1. A commune of Cluj, Romania
2. A village in Luna, Cluj, Romania
3. A locality in Negrești-Oaș, Satu Mare, Romania

Etymology

See lúna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lùːna/

Proper noun

Lúna f

1. the Moon (of Earth)

Inflection

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More information Feminine, a-stem, nominative ...

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Lúna
genitive	Lúne
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Lúna
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Lúne
dative (dajȃlnik)	Lúni
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Lúno
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Lúni
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Lúno

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluna/ [ˈlu.na]
• Rhymes: -una
• Syllabification: Lu‧na

Etymology 1

From Latin lūna.

Etymology 2

From dialectal Aragonese luna (“lights”), a habitational name for someone living by an open courtyard.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Luna.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈluna/ [ˈluː.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -una
• Syllabification: Lu‧na

Proper noun

Luna (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜓᜈ)

1. a female given name from Spanish
2. (Roman mythology) Luna (goddess of the moon)
3. A municipality of Apayao, Philippines

Anagrams

• ulan