luna, luni-, lun-, lunu- +

(Latin: moon, light, shine)


lunarium
An instrument representing the phases and motions of the moon.
lunarnaut
Someone who travels or has travelled to the moon; literally, "moon sailor".
lunarography
1. The description and delineation of the moon’s surface.
2. The descriptive science relating to the moon; also, selenography.
lunarology
The scientific study of the moon.
lunarscape
A rugged barren landscape of strange rock formations, similar to the surface of the moon.
lunary
1. A reference to the moon.
2. Monthly, menstrual period.
3. Someone born under the influence of the moon.
4. A crescent or half-moon.
lunate
1. Shaped like a crescent moon.
2. Of or relating to the moon.
3. A small prehistoric stone (usually flint) artifact that was probably used as an arrow-head and has an elongated half-moon shape with the straight edge unworked and the curved edge sharpened by chipping.
lunated
Shaped like a crescent.
lunatic, lunatism
1. Originally, affected with the kind of insanity that was supposed to have recurring periods dependent on the changes of the moon.

In modern use, synonymous with insane; current in popular and legal language, but not now employed technically by physicians.

2. A reference to things: indicating lunacy; crazy.
3. Madly foolish, frantic, idiotic, mad.
4. A person of unsound mind; a madman.
5. Utterly foolish.
6. Etymology: "affected with periodic insanity, dependent on the changes of the moon", from Old French lunatique, "insane"; from Latin lunaticus, "moon-struck", from luna, "moon".
lunatic fringe
The minority considered foolishly extremist, fanatical, etc. in a political, social, religious, or other movement.
lunation
1. The time from one new moon to the next, constituting a lunar month (29.5 days).
2. The time of the full moon.
lunatism
Sleep walking; obviously, when there is some form of the shining moon.
lune
Anything that is shaped like the crescent or half-moon.
lunette
1. Any of various figures or objects shaped like a half-moon or a crescent.
2. A crescentiform or semicircular space in a ceiling, dome, etc., decorated with paintings or sculptures; a piece of decoration filling such a space.
3. In the guillotine, the circular hole which receives the neck of the victim.
lunific
A substance capable of transmuting other substances into silver; producing silver.

Etymologically related "light, shine, glow" word families: ethero-; fulg-; luco-; lumen-, lum-; lustr-; phengo-; pheno-; phospho-; photo-; scinti-, scintill-; splendo-.


A cross reference of word units that are related, directly or indirectly, to the: "moon": Calendar, Moon Facts; Chemical Element: selenium; Gods and Goddesses; Luna, the earth moon; menisc-; meno-; Planets in Motion; plano- seleno-.


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