luna

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WOTD – 28 December 2012

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin lūna (“moon; month; crescent”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈluːnə/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈlʉwnə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlunə/
• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈlʉːnə/

  • Audio (Australia):

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• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈlʉnə/
• (Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪʊnə/
• Homophones: lunar, looner (non-rhotic)
• Rhymes: -uːnə

Noun

luna (plural lunas)

1. (entomology) A luna moth: a member of species Actias luna.
   • 1944, Elizabeth Enright, Then There Were Five‎^[1], Farrar & Rinehart, page 80:

     “Gee,” whispered Oliver. He sat there staring. “A luna! I never thought I’d see a real luna!”

   • 1969, Sterling North, “An Introduction to Butterflies and Moths”, in Boys’ Life, May 1969 issue, Boy Scouts of America, page 64:

     On the previous evening we had discovered with delight a luna with the fabulous moons, one on each pale green wing.

   • 2010, Sally Roth (contributor), in Judy Pray (compiler), Garden Wisdom & Know-How: Everything You Need to Know to Plant, Grow, and Harvest, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 348:

     Spray BT on your young oak to protect against gypsy moths, and you wipe out future lunas, cecropias, and everything else on the leaves, along with the pests.

2. (Christianity, chiefly Catholicism and Anglicanism) A lunette: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance. [from 19th c.]
   • 1907 May, “Dominicanus”, “The Rosary and the Blessed Sacrament”, in the Dominican Friars, The Rosary Magazine, Volume 30, Number 5, page 494:

     The Bread of Angels is first taken from the tabernacle, where it rests in the luna, and placed upon the altar, covered with a corporal. After genuflecting, the priest puts the luna containing the Blessed Sacrament on its throne—the monstrance—and elevates it […]

   • 1917, John F. Sullivan, The Externals of the Catholic Church, BiblioLife, LLC, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 115–116:

     This receptacle is called a “luna” or “lunula” (a moon, or a little moon), and has glass on either side, so that the Host may be seen when enclosed therein. […] ¶ […] ¶ The ciborium, the pyx and luna of the ostensorium are blessed with a simpler formula than that used for the chalice, and […] ¶ […] ¶ The chalice, the paten, the luna and the pyx are sacred things, true sacramentals, and are worthy of deepest reverence; for […]

   • 2007, John Trigilio, Kenneth Brighenti, The Catholicism Answer Book: The 300 Most Frequently Asked Questions, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 156:

     The luna, which is a piece of glass in the shape of a moon, contains the Blessed Sacrament, previously consecrated. The luna is then placed in the middle of the sunburst of the monstrance.

Synonyms

• (glass holder): lunette, lunula

Related terms

• luna cornea

Etymology 2

From Hawaiian luna (“leader; supervisor”).

Noun

luna (plural luna or lunas)

1. (Hawaii) A foreman on a plantation.
   • 1922 June, U. G. Murphy, “The Japanese Problem in Hawaii: How the Task of Christianizing and Americanizing the Oriental is Progressing”, in The Friend, volume 91, number 6, page 130:

     There are several reasons why the Hawaiian-born Japanese boys and girls do not take kindly to plantation labor, but one of the chief reasons is the objection to the kind of lunas who oversee the work of the laborers.

   • 1959, James Michener, Hawaii‎^[2], Fawcett Crest, published 1986, →ISBN, page 737:

     […] haoles could not visualize Chinese or Japanese in positions of authority. And from sad experience, the great plantation owners had discovered that the Americans they could get to serve as lunas were positively no good. Capable Americans expected office jobs and incapable ones were unable to control the Oriental […]

   • 2000, Sally Engle Merry, Colonizing Hawai'i: the cultural power of law, page 321:

     After the day was over I went to the luna to count my day but he would not. Then I went to him the second time and he said he would not put it down.

   • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 35:

     Capital punishment was outlawed by the government but some plantation managers and luna still delivered lashings and other forms of abuse.

Usage notes

• This noun, though inflected as an English word (singular luna, plural lunas), is frequently italicized as a loanword.

Anagrams

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

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

Noun

luna f (plural lunas)

1. moon

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “luna”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Cebuano

Etymology

Compare Malay duma and Central Bikol rona.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luˈnaʔ/ [luˈn̪aʔ]
• Hyphenation: lu‧na

Noun

lunâ (Badlit spelling ᜎᜓᜈ)

1. one's proper place under the sun

   Balik sa imong luna aron walay gubot.

   Return to your proper place to avoid trouble.

2. room, accommodation

   May luna pa ba ko sa kinabuhi mo?

   Is there still room for me in your life?

Derived terms

• pahiluna

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish luna (“moon”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: lu‧na

Noun

luna

1. moon

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

Noun

luna f

1. moon

References

• “luna” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech luna, from Proto-Slavic *lunà, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *láukšnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂. Cognates include Latin lūna, Ancient Greek λύχνος (lúkhnos), Old Prussian lauxnos and Middle Irish luan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈluna]

Noun

luna f

1. (poetic) moon

   Synonym: měsíc

Declension

Declension of luna (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	luna	luny
genitive	luny	lun
dative	luně	lunám
accusative	lunu	luny
vocative	luno	luny
locative	luně	lunách
instrumental	lunou	lunami

Related terms

• lunární

Further reading

• “luna”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “luna”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “luna”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Esperanto

Etymology

Etymology tree

Esperanto luno

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Italic *-ā

Latin -ader.

▲

Latin -a

Italian -ader.

▲

Latin -a

Old Spanish -a

Spanish -ader.

Esperanto -a

Esperanto luna

From luno (“moon”) + -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluna/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -una
• Syllabification: lu‧na

Adjective

luna (accusative singular lunan, plural lunaj, accusative plural lunajn)

1. (astronomy) lunar

Further reading

• “luna”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “luna”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese lũa, from Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluna/
• Rhymes: -una
• Syllabification: lu‧na

Noun

luna f (plural lunas)

1. moon

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web), 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 191

Franco-Provençal

Noun

luna (ORB, broad)

1. alternative form of lena (“moon”)

References

• lune in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• luna in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Hawaiian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.na/, [ˈlu.nə]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *luŋa (“above, top”). Cognate with Māori runga (“above”).

Noun

luna

1. top, upper

Derived terms

• kia luna (“topmast”)
• koma luna (“apostrophe”)
• papahele o luna (“upper floor”)

Preposition

luna

1. above, atop, on, in

   Kau i luna o ka waʻa.

   Get into the canoe.

Derived terms

• maluna (“upward”)

Etymology 2

Possibly a specialised use of the preceding noun. A derivation from Proto-Polynesian *runaŋa (“council, assembly”) has also been suggested, but this is problematic on both phonetic and semantic grounds.

Noun

luna

1. boss, overseer, foreman, supervisor
2. (in combinations) any kind of official
3. chief piece in the game of kōnane

Derived terms

• hoʻoluna (“to appoint as an overseer”, verb)
• luna hoʻopuka (“producer”)
• luna kānāwai (“judge”)
• luna kulanui (“dean”)
• luna ʻauhau (“tax collector”)

Descendants

• → English: luna

Further reading

• luna in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

Interlingua

Noun

luna (plural lunas)

1. moon

Italian

Etymology

From Luna, 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/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: Luna
• Rhymes: -una
• Hyphenation: lù‧na

Noun

luna f (plural lune)

1. (colloquial, astronomy, by extension of Luna) a natural satellite

   Synonym: satellite naturale

2. (archaic, literary) a month, moon
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXIII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 22, 25–27; 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:

     Breve pertugio dentro da la Muda,
     […]
     m’avea mostrato per lo suo forame
     più lune già, quand’io feci ’l mal sonno
     che del futuro mi squarciò ’l velame

     "A narrow opening in the mew had already shown me many moons through its hole, when I dreamed the evil dream that tore apart the veil of the future for me."

3. (archaic, figurative, by extension) a time of the year
4. (alchemy) silver
5. (heraldry) a full moon (as opposed to a crescent)

Derived terms

• allunare
• avere la luna storta
• luna park
• lunario
• mezza luna
• mezzaluna

Related terms

• lunare
• lunaria
• lunatico
• lunato
• lunazione
• lunedì

Anagrams

• ulna

Ladino

Etymology

From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

Noun

luna f (plural lunas)

1. moon

References

• Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977), Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 332

Latin

lūna (the Moon)

Alternative forms

• Lūna (for the sense "the Moon" and the goddess)
• losna (Praenestine)
• ☽, ☾ (alchemy)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂, which is derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-. By surface analysis, lūx +‎ -na.

Cognates include Proto-Slavic *luna.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫuː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈluː.na]

Noun

lūna f (genitive lūnae); first declension

1. (astronomy) a moon
2. (figuratively) moonlight, moon shine
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.697:

     lūna fuit: spectant iuvenem gladiōsque recondunt

     There was moonlight: They look upon the young man, and sheathe their swords

3. (figuratively) a month
4. (figuratively) a night
5. a crescent shape
6. (alchemy, chemistry) silver

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lūna	lūnae
genitive	lūnae	lūnārum
dative	lūnae	lūnīs
accusative	lūnam	lūnās
ablative	lūnā	lūnīs
vocative	lūna	lūnae

Derived terms

• interlūnis
• interlūnium
• Lūna
• lūnāris
• lūnāticus
• lūnātis
• lūnō
• lūnula
• novilūnium
• plenilūnium

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: luna
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: lunã
  • Istro-Romanian: lurĕ
  • Megleno-Romanian: lună
  • Romanian: lună
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: luna
    • Gallurese: luna
    • Sassarese: łuna
  • Dalmatian: loina
  • Italian: luna
  • Judeo-Italian: לוּנַה (lunah /⁠luna⁠/)
  • Neapolitan: luna
    • Tarantino: lune
  • Sicilian: luna
  • Venetan: łuna
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: lune
  • Ladin: löna, lùna
  • Romansh: glina
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Ligurian: lun-a
  • Old Lombard: luna
    • Lombard: luna, lüna, löna
  • Piedmontese: lun-a
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Northern:
    • Franco-Provençal: lena
    • Old French: lune (see there for further descendants)
  • Southern:
    • Occitan: luna
    • Old Catalan: luna
      • Catalan: lluna
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: luna
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: lũa (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: lluna
    • Extremaduran: luna
    • Leonese: lluna
    • Mirandese: lhuna
  • Old Spanish: luna
    • Ladino: luna
    • Spanish: luna (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → Danish: lune
  • → English: lune, luna
  • → German: Laune
  • → Interlingua: luna

See also

• noctilūca

References

• “luna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “luna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "luna", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the sun, moon, is eclipsed: sol (luna) deficit, obscuratur
    
  • the moon waxes, wanes: luna crescit; decrescit, senescit
    
• “luna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “luna”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “luna”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “luna”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Lindu

Noun

luna

1. pillow

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin lūna, from Old Latin losna.

Noun

luna f

1. (Old Lombard) the moon

Descendants

• Lombard: lüna, löna

Middle English

Noun

luna

1. alternative form of lune

Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin lūna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluna/
  • (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈluːnɐ]
  • (Central Apulia) IPA^(key): [ˈluːnə ⁓ ˈlownə ⁓ ˈləʉnə]
  • (Eastern Abruzzo) IPA^(key): [ˈluːnə ⁓ ˈlownə ⁓ ˈlʊːnə] IPA^(key): [ˈlyːnə ⁓ ˈliːnə]

Noun

luna f (plural lune)

1. moon

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 361: “la luna” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Occitan

Alternative forms

• lua
• luno (Provence)

Etymology

From Old Occitan luna, from Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlyno]

• Audio (Béarn):

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Noun

luna f (plural lunas)

1. moon

Old Czech

Alternative forms

• łuna (alternative writing)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *lewk-

Proto-Indo-European *-sneh₂

Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂

Proto-Balto-Slavic *láukšnāˀ

Proto-Slavic *lunà

Old Czech luna

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lunà, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *láukšnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈɫuna/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈluna/

Noun

luna f (poetic)

1. moon

   Synonym: měsiec

2. glow; light beam

   luna měsiečná

   moonbeam

Declension

Declension of luna (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	luna	luně	luny
genitive	luny	lunú	lun
dative	luně	lunama	lunám
accusative	lunu	luně	luny
vocative	luno	luně	luny
locative	luně	lunú	lunách
instrumental	lunú	lunama	lunami

This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.

Descendants

• Czech: luna

References

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “luna”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Papiamentu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *lewk-

Proto-Indo-European *-sneh₂

Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂

Proto-Italic *louksnā

Latin lūna

Old Spanish luna

Spanish lunabor.

Papiamentu luna

Borrowed from Spanish luna (“moon”).

Noun

luna

1. moon
2. month

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *lewk-

Proto-Indo-European *-sneh₂

Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂

Proto-Italic *louksnā

Latin lūnalbor.

Polish luna

Learned borrowing from Latin lūna. Doublet of łuna and Roksana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.na/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -una
• Syllabification: lu‧na
• Homophone: Luna

Noun

luna f

1. (archaic, poetic) moon

   Synonyms: księżyc, miesiąc

Declension

Declension of luna

	singular	plural
nominative	luna	luny
genitive	luny	lun
dative	lunie	lunom
accusative	lunę	luny
instrumental	luną	lunami
locative	lunie	lunach
vocative	luno	luny

Related terms

adjectives

• lunarny
• lunatyczny

nouns

• lunacja
• lunatyczka
• lunatyk
• lunatyzm
• luneta
• lunit

Further reading

• “luna”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.na/
• Rhymes: -una
• Hyphenation: lu‧na

Noun

luna

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of lună: the moon, the month

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin lūna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

Noun

luna f (plural lunas)

1. moon

References

• “luna”, in Ditzionàriu in línia de sa limba e de sa cultura sarda [Online Dictionary of the Sardinian Language and Culture] (in Sardinian, Italian, and English), Autonomous Region of Sardinia [Sardinian: Regione Autonoma della Sardegna]

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *luna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *láukšnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lǔːna/

Noun

lúna f (Cyrillic spelling лу́на)

1. moon

   Synonym: mesec/misec/mjesec

Declension

Declension of luna

	singular	plural
nominative	luna	lune
genitive	lune	luna
dative	luni	lunama
accusative	lunu	lune
vocative	luno	lune
locative	luni	lunama
instrumental	lunom	lunama

References

• “luna”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin lūna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluna/
• Hyphenation: lù‧na

Noun

luna f (plural luni)

1. moon

Derived terms

• luniddì
• lunariari

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lunà.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luna/, [ˈluna]
• Rhymes: -una
• Hyphenation: lu‧na

Noun

luna f (relational adjective lunný or lunárny)

1. (archaic, poetic) moon

   Synonym: mesiac

Declension

Declension of luna
(pattern žena)

	singular	plural
nominative	luna	luny
genitive	luny	lún
dative	lune	lunám
accusative	lunu	luny
locative	lune	lunách
instrumental	lunou	lunami

Further reading

• “luna”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lunà, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *láukšnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lùːna/

Noun

lúna f

1. moon

   Synonym: mésec

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	lúna
gen. sing.	lúne
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	lúna	lúni	lúne
genitive (rodȋlnik)	lúne	lún	lún
dative (dajȃlnik)	lúni	lúnama	lúnam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	lúno	lúni	lúne
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	lúni	lúnah	lúnah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	lúno	lúnama	lúnami

See also

• Lúna

Further reading

• “luna”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “luna”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Spanish

Luna creciente ― Waxing moon

Luna llena ― Full moon

Alternative forms

• Luna (chiefly astronomy)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *lewk-

Proto-Indo-European *-sneh₂

Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂

Proto-Italic *louksnā

Latin lūna

Old Spanish luna

Spanish luna

Inherited from Old Spanish luna, from Latin lūna. Cognate with Asturian lluna, Catalan lluna, French lune, Galician lúa, Italian luna, Occitan luna, Portuguese lua, and Romanian lună.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluna/ [ˈlu.na]

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• Rhymes: -una
• Syllabification: lu‧na

Noun

luna f (plural lunas)

1. moon

   A veces puedo ver la luna en la mañana.

   Sometimes I can see the moon in the morning.

2. windshield
3. ellipsis of pez luna (“sunfish”)
4. (Germanía) shirt
5. (Germanía) shield

Derived terms

• alunizar
• caca de luna
• claro de luna
• creciente de la Luna
• elevalunas
• estar con la luna
• estar en la luna
• estar en la luna de Valencia
• ladrar a la luna
• luna creciente
• luna de miel
• luna en lleno
• luna gibosa
• luna llena
• luna menguante
• luna nueva
• lunar
• mariposa luna
• menguante de la Luna
• pastel de luna
• pedir la luna
• pez luna
• piedra de luna

Related terms

• lunar
• lunático

Descendants

• Papiamentu: luna

Further reading

• “luna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Anagrams

• nula