See lune in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for lune meaning in English (6.5kB)
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "lūna",
"4": "",
"5": "moon"
},
"expansion": "Latin lūna (“moon”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin lūna (“moon”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "lunes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lune (plural lunes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217",
"text": "A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak."
],
"id": "en-lune-en-noun-TnEC7xBQ",
"links": [
[
"lunacy",
"lunacy"
],
[
"madness",
"madness"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/luːn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/lɪu̯n/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːn"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lune.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "lune"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "demi-lune"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "lune of Hippocrates"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "spherical lune"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*lewk-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "lune"
},
"expansion": "French lune",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "luna"
},
"expansion": "Latin luna",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From French lune, from Latin luna.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "lunes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lune (plural lunes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Geometry",
"orig": "en:Geometry",
"parents": [
"Mathematics",
"Formal sciences",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "5 70 17 8",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Circle",
"orig": "en:Circle",
"parents": [
"Curves",
"Shapes",
"Geometry",
"Mathematics",
"Formal sciences",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 57 27 11",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Curves",
"orig": "en:Curves",
"parents": [
"Shapes",
"Geometry",
"Mathematics",
"Formal sciences",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 56 28 11",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Shapes",
"orig": "en:Shapes",
"parents": [
"Geometry",
"Mathematics",
"Formal sciences",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1984, Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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."
],
"id": "en-lune-en-noun-J35VA9pe",
"links": [
[
"geometry",
"geometry"
],
[
"arc",
"arc"
],
[
"circle",
"circle"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(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."
],
"topics": [
"geometry",
"mathematics",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "90 10",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "geometry: concave figure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "corrán"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "5 26 45 24",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 27 47 18",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Psychology",
"orig": "en:Psychology",
"parents": [
"Social sciences",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Anything crescent-shaped."
],
"id": "en-lune-en-noun-GhYcj2nU",
"links": [
[
"crescent",
"crescent"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/luːn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/lɪu̯n/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːn"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lune.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "lune"
}
{
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "lyon"
},
"expansion": "lyon",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Alteration of lyon.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "lunes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lune (plural lunes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A leash for a hawk."
],
"id": "en-lune-en-noun-bMf4PYnm",
"links": [
[
"leash",
"leash"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(hawking) A leash for a hawk."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "lunar"
},
{
"word": "lunatic"
},
{
"word": "lunacy"
},
{
"word": "loon"
},
{
"word": "Monday"
}
],
"topics": [
"falconry",
"hawking",
"hobbies",
"hunting",
"lifestyle"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/luːn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/lɪu̯n/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːn"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lune.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "lune"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:English/uːn",
"Rhymes:English/uːn/1 syllable",
"en:Circle",
"en:Curves",
"en:Psychology",
"en:Shapes"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "lūna",
"4": "",
"5": "moon"
},
"expansion": "Latin lūna (“moon”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin lūna (“moon”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "lunes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lune (plural lunes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217",
"text": "A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak."
],
"links": [
[
"lunacy",
"lunacy"
],
[
"madness",
"madness"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/luːn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/lɪu̯n/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːn"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lune.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "lune"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from French",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk-",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:English/uːn",
"Rhymes:English/uːn/1 syllable",
"en:Circle",
"en:Curves",
"en:Psychology",
"en:Shapes"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "demi-lune"
},
{
"word": "lune of Hippocrates"
},
{
"word": "spherical lune"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*lewk-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "lune"
},
"expansion": "French lune",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "luna"
},
"expansion": "Latin luna",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From French lune, from Latin luna.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "lunes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lune (plural lunes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Geometry"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1984, Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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."
],
"links": [
[
"geometry",
"geometry"
],
[
"arc",
"arc"
],
[
"circle",
"circle"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(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."
],
"topics": [
"geometry",
"mathematics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Anything crescent-shaped."
],
"links": [
[
"crescent",
"crescent"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/luːn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/lɪu̯n/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːn"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lune.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "geometry: concave figure",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "corrán"
}
],
"word": "lune"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:English/uːn",
"Rhymes:English/uːn/1 syllable",
"en:Circle",
"en:Curves",
"en:Psychology",
"en:Shapes"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "lyon"
},
"expansion": "lyon",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Alteration of lyon.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "lunes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lune (plural lunes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "lunar"
},
{
"word": "lunatic"
},
{
"word": "lunacy"
},
{
"word": "loon"
},
{
"word": "Monday"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A leash for a hawk."
],
"links": [
[
"leash",
"leash"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(hawking) A leash for a hawk."
],
"topics": [
"falconry",
"hawking",
"hobbies",
"hunting",
"lifestyle"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/luːn/"
},
{
"ipa": "/lɪu̯n/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːn"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lune.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lune.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "lune"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.