See Luna in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Lauꝺato ſi miſignore ꝑ ſora luna ele ſtelle. in celu lai foꝛmate clarite ⁊ p̄tioſe ⁊ belle.",
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"text": "[\"][…] tutto l’oro ch’è sotto la luna\ne che già fu, di quest’anime stanche\nnon poterebbe farne posare una\".",
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"text": "Lauꝺato ſi miſignore ꝑ ſora luna ele ſtelle. in celu lai foꝛmate clarite ⁊ p̄tioſe ⁊ belle.",
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"text": "[\"][…] tutto l’oro ch’è sotto la luna\ne che già fu, di quest’anime stanche\nnon poterebbe farne posare una\".",
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"english": "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.",
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"text": "Nel cerchio de la luna a menar t’aggio,\nche dei pianeti a noi piú prossima erra,\nperché la medicina che può saggio\nrendere Orlando, lá dentro si serra.",
"translation": "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.",
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"text": "crīnītus Iōpās […] canit errantem lūnam sōlisque labōres",
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"roman": "autàr épeita sákos méga te stibarón te\nheíleto, toû d’ apáneuthe sélas génet’ ēǘte mḗnēs.\nhōs d’ hót’ àn ek póntoio sélas naútēisi phanḗēi\nkaioménoio purós, tó te kaíetai hupsóth’ óresphi\nstathmōî en oiopólōi […]",
"text": "αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα σάκος μέγα τε στιβαρόν τε\nεἵλετο, τοῦ δ’ ἀπάνευθε σέλας γένετ’ ἠΰτε μήνης.\nὡς δ’ ὅτ’ ἂν ἐκ πόντοιο σέλας ναύτῃσι φανήῃ\nκαιομένοιο πυρός, τό τε καίεται ὑψόθ’ ὄρεσφι\nσταθμῷ ἐν οἰοπόλῳ […]",
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"nobility",
"politics"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Italian female given names",
"Italian female given names from Latin",
"Italian given names"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "(derived) Lunella, Lunetta, Lunina"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a female given name from Latin"
],
"links": [
[
"given name",
"given name"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Italian surnames"
],
"glosses": [
"a surname"
],
"links": [
[
"surname",
"surname"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlu.na/"
},
{
"homophone": "luna"
},
{
"rhymes": "-una"
}
],
"word": "Luna"
}
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