Feminine

luna

Sentences
Meaning

  1. (broadly, colloquial, feminine) a natural satellite
  2. (archaic, feminine, literary) a month, moon
  3. (archaic, broadly, feminine, figuratively) a time of the year
  4. (feminine) silver
  5. (feminine) a full moon (as opposed to a crescent)

Frequency

B1
Hyphenated as
lù‧na
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈlu.na/
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).

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