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語源 1

Borrowed from Latin lūna (“moon; month; crescent”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈluːnə/
• 異形同音異義語: lunar, looner (non-rhotic)
• 韻: -uːnə

名詞

luna (plural lunas)

1. (entomology) A luna moth: a member of species Actias luna.
   • 1944, Elizabeth Enright, Then There Were Five‎, Farrar & Rinehart, page 80:

     “Gee,” whispered Oliver. He sat there staring. “A luna! I never thought I’d see a real luna!”

   • 1969, Sterling North, “An Introduction to Butterflies and Moths”, in Boys’ Life, May 1969 issue, Boy Scouts of America, page 64:

     On the previous evening we had discovered with delight a luna with the fabulous moons, one on each pale green wing.

   • 2010, Sally Roth (contributor), in Judy Pray (compiler), Garden Wisdom & Know-How: Everything You Need to Know to Plant, Grow, and Harvest, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 348:

     Spray BT on your young oak to protect against gypsy moths, and you wipe out future lunas, cecropias, and everything else on the leaves, along with the pests.

2. (Christianity, chiefly Catholicism and Anglicanism) A lunette: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance. [from 19th c.]
   • 1907 May, “Dominicanus”, “The Rosary and the Blessed Sacrament”, in the Dominican Friars, The Rosary Magazine, Volume 30, Number 5, page 494:

     The Bread of Angels is first taken from the tabernacle, where it rests in the luna, and placed upon the altar, covered with a corporal. After genuflecting, the priest puts the luna containing the Blessed Sacrament on its throne—the monstrance—and elevates it […]

   • 1917, John F. Sullivan, The Externals of the Catholic Church, BiblioLife, LLC, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 115–116:

     This receptacle is called a “luna” or “lunula” (a moon, or a little moon), and has glass on either side, so that the Host may be seen when enclosed therein. […] ¶ […] ¶ The ciborium, the pyx and luna of the ostensorium are blessed with a simpler formula than that used for the chalice, and […] ¶ […] ¶ The chalice, the paten, the luna and the pyx are sacred things, true sacramentals, and are worthy of deepest reverence; for […]

   • 2007, John Trigilio, Kenneth Brighenti, The Catholicism Answer Book: The 300 Most Frequently Asked Questions, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 156:

     The luna, which is a piece of glass in the shape of a moon, contains the Blessed Sacrament, previously consecrated. The luna is then placed in the middle of the sunburst of the monstrance.

同意語

• (glass holder): lunette, lunula

関連する語

• luna cornea

語源 2

From Hawaiian luna (“leader; supervisor”).

名詞

luna (plural luna or lunas)

1. (Hawaii) A foreman on a plantation.
   • 1922 June, U. G. Murphy, “The Japanese Problem in Hawaii: How the Task of Christianizing and Americanizing the Oriental is Progressing”, in The Friend, volume 91, number 6, page 130:

     There are several reasons why the Hawaiian-born Japanese boys and girls do not take kindly to plantation labor, but one of the chief reasons is the objection to the kind of lunas who oversee the work of the laborers.

   • 1959, James Michener, Hawaii‎, Fawcett Crest, published 1986, →ISBN, page 737:

     […] haoles could not visualize Chinese or Japanese in positions of authority. And from sad experience, the great plantation owners had discovered that the Americans they could get to serve as lunas were positively no good. Capable Americans expected office jobs and incapable ones were unable to control the Oriental […]

   • 2000, Sally Engle Merry, Colonizing Hawai'i: the cultural power of law, page 321:

     After the day was over I went to the luna to count my day but he would not. Then I went to him the second time and he said he would not put it down.

   • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 35:

     Capital punishment was outlawed by the government but some plantation managers and luna still delivered lashings and other forms of abuse.

使用する際の注意点

• This noun, though inflected as an English word (singular luna, plural lunas), is frequently italicized as a loanword.

参照

アナグラム

• Alun, An-lu, Anlu, Lu'an, auln, luan, ulan, ulna, unal

語源

From Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂, which is derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-. By surface analysis, lūx +‎ -na. Cognates include Proto-Slavic *luna.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɫuː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈluː.na]

名詞

lūna f (genitive lūnae); first declension

1. (astronomy) a moon
2. (figuratively) moonlight, moon shine
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.697:

     lūna fuit: spectant iuvenem gladiōsque recondunt

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

3. (figuratively) a month
4. (figuratively) a night
5. a crescent shape
6. (alchemy, chemistry) silver

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

参考

• noctilūca

参照

• “luna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “luna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "luna", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the sun, moon, is eclipsed: sol (luna) deficit, obscuratur
    
  • the moon waxes, wanes: luna crescit; decrescit, senescit
    
• “luna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “luna”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “luna”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “luna”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press