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Added 9 October 2026

lune

/luːn/ noun

Latin root: lūna Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about lune at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.

noun

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.
Anything crescent-shaped.

noun

A leash for a hawk.

Origin

From Latin lūna (“moon”).

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