Noun: luna
Gender: f
Hyphenation: lù‧na
| Singular f | luna |
| Plural f | lune |
Sample Sentences
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Breve pertugio dentro da la Muda,
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[…]
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m’avea mostrato per lo suo forame
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più lune già, quand’io feci ’l mal sonno
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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.") [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], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
Nouns inflected like luna
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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). See: Latin Nouns '
lūna', Spanish Nouns '
luna', Portuguese Nouns '
lua', Romanian Nouns '
lună'.
Verbs referencing "luna"
Spanish Nouns
luna.
Translations