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語源 1

From Latin lūna (“moon”).

名詞

lune (plural lunes)

1. (obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 54, column 1:

     Why woman, your husband is in his olde Lunes againe: […]

   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 283, column 2:

     Theſe dangerous, vnſafe Lunes i'th' King, beſhrew them: / He muſt be told on't, and he ſhall […]

   • 1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217:

     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.

語源 2

From French lune, from Latin luna.

名詞

lune (plural lunes)

1. (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.
   • 1984, Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner:

     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.

使用する際の注意点

The corresponding convex shape is sometimes called a lune, but is, strictly, a lens.

派生語

語源 3

Alteration of lyon.

名詞

lune (plural lunes)

1. (hawking) A leash for a hawk.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xvj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VI:

     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 sawe how he henge

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

関連する語

• lunar
• lunatic
• lunacy

参考

• loon
• Monday

アナグラム

• nuel

別の表記

• luna

発音

• IPA: /ˈliu̯n(ə)/

名詞

lune (uncountable)

1. (astronomy, sometimes capitalised) The celestial body closest to the Earth, considered to be a planet in the Ptolemic system as well as the boundary between the Earth and the heavens.
2. (rare, sometimes capitalised) A white, precious metal; silver.
   • 1395, Chaucer, “Canon Yeoman's Prologue and Tale”, in Canterbury Tales:

     He vnderstood, and brymstoon by his brother, That out of Sol and Luna were ydrawe.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

同意語

• mone
• (planet): Lucyna, Diane, Phebe

派生した語

• English: Luna

参照

• “luna, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 June 2018.

語源 2

名詞

lune

1. alternative form of loyne (“leash”)