Luna

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈlunə/
• Rhymes: -uːnə

Luna

1. The name of Earth's moon.
2. (Roman mythology) The sister of Aurora and Sol; the goddess of the moon; equivalent to the Greek Selene.
3. A female given name.
   • 1837 James Hogg, "The Mysterious Bride", 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, →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.

4. A given name for a female pet.
5. (alchemy) Silver.

• Greco-Roman Moon Goddesses:
  • Artemis / Diana
  • Hecate / Trivia
  • Theia
  • Phoebe
  • Pandia
  • The Menae

• Luna County

• (moon of Earth) Luna/‎Moon/‎moon ^[edit]

• Anlu, auln, luan, ulan, ulna, unal

Luna f

1. The Moon

From Spanish luna, from Latin lūna.

Luna

1. a female given name

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

Luna

1. a surname​

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

Luna

1. (Roman mythology) Luna; the goddess of the moon; the sister of Aurora and Sol;

Luna

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

Luna

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

From Latin Lūna, from Old Latin losna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lowksneh₂, derived from the root *lewk- (“bright”).
Cognates include Armenian լուսին (lusin), Spanish luna, Portuguese lua, Romanian lună, Russian луна́ (luná)

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.na/, [ˈl̺uːn̺ä]
• Rhymes: -una
• Homophone: luna
• Stress: lùna
• Hyphenation: lu‧na

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Luna f

1. (astronomy, astrology) the Moon
   • c. 1226, Francis of Assisi, Cantico delle creature [Canticle of the Creatures]‎, printed by the Biblioteca del Sacro Convento di San Francesco, page 2:

     Laudato ſi mi ſignore ᵱ ſora luna e le ſtelle, in celu lai foꝛmate clarite ⁊ p̃tioſe ⁊ belle.

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

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Inferno [Hell]”, in La divina commedia [The Divine Comedy]‎, 1st edition, Foligno: Printed by Johannes Numeister and Evangelista Mei, published 1472, Canto VII, lines 64-66:

     che tutto l oro che ſotto la luna ¶ et che gia fu de queſte anime ſtanche ¶ none potrebbe farne poſar una

     « […] for all the gold that is beneath the moon, ¶ or ever has been, of these weary souls ¶ could never make a single one repose».

2. (mythology, Roman mythology) Luna

   Synonym: Selene (Greek mythology)

3. (heraldry) A full moon.
4. A female given name

   (derivated) Lunella, Lunetta, Lunina

5. A surname​.

• ulna

Lūna f (genitive Lūnae); first declension

1. Alternative 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.

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• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈluː.na/, [ˈɫuː.na]

Lūna f (genitive Lūnae); first declension

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

First declension.

• Lūnēnsis

• 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

See lúna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlùːna/
• Tonal orthography: lúna

Lúna f (genitive Lúne)

1. the Moon (of Earth)

• Mésec

• lúna

• IPA^(key): /ˈluna/

From Latin lūna.

Luna f

1. Earth's Moon

   La Luna es el único satélite natural de la Tierra.

   The Moon is the Earth's only natural satellite.

2. A female given name of modern usage.

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

Luna f

1. A surname​.

Borrowed from Spanish Luna.

Luna

1. A female given name