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Meaning of luna | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
[ˈɫuː.na]

Definitions

  1. alternative letter-case form of lūna (“the Moon”)
    alt-of, declension-1
  2. a city in Etruria, situated on the left bank of the Macra
    declension-1
  3. a moon
    declension-1
  4. Luna (the moon goddess)
    Roman, declension-1
  5. moonlight, moon shine
    declension-1, figuratively
  6. a month
    declension-1, figuratively
  7. a night
    declension-1, figuratively
  8. a crescent shape
    declension-1
  9. silver
    declension-1

Equivalents

English moon

Examples

“lūna fuit: spectant iuvenem gladiōsque recondunt”

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

“AD 334–7, Julius Firmicus Maternus (author), Wilhelm Kroll and Franz Skutsch (editors), Matheseos libri VIII, Leipzig: In aedibus B. G. Teubneri, volume I: Libros IV priores et quinti prooemium continens (1897), book iv, chapter i, § 10 (page 199, lines 16–19)”

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“Lūna regit mēnsīs”

Luna governs the months (See Luna (goddess).)

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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