luna
/ˈluːnə/ · noun
Meaning
- A luna moth: a member of species Actias luna.
- A lunette: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.
- A foreman on a plantation.
- The sister of Aurora and Sol; the goddess of the moon; equivalent to the Greek Selene.
- The Earth's Moon.
- A female given name from Latin.
- Argent (silver), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.
- Silver.
Etymology / origin
Borrowed from Latin lūna (“moon; month; crescent”).
- lūna(la)→
- *lewk-(ine-pro)→
- luna (English)
- Relations: root, der
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