lunar (adj.)

early 15c., "crescent-shaped;" 1620s, "pertaining to the moon," from Old French lunaire (15c.), from Latin lunaris "of the moon," from luna "moon" (see luna).

also from early 15c.

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luna (n.)

late 14c. "the moon," especially as personified in a Roman goddess answering to Greek Selene; also an alchemical name for "silver;" from Latin luna "moon, goddess of the moon," from PIE *leuksna- (source also of Old Church Slavonic luna "moon," Old Prussian lauxnos "stars," Middle Irish luan "light, moon"), suffixed form of root *leuk- "light, brightness." The luna moth (1841, American English) so called for the crescent-shaped eye-spots on its wings.

Lunarian (n.)

1708, "moon-man, inhabitant of the moon;" see lunar + -ian. Also "expert on or student of lunar phenomena" (1817).

sublunar

sublunary

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sublunary

1590s, "situated under the moon," hence "earthly, mundane" (old cosmology), from Modern Latin sublunaris, from sub "under, beneath" (see sub-) + lunaris "of the moon" (see lunar). It owes its special sense to the old cosmology of heavenly spheres and ultimately to Aristotle: The

Ramadan

In the Islamic lunar calendar, it passes through all seasons in a cycle of about 33 years, but evidently originally it was...

sol

Soli-lunar "relating to both the sun and the moon" is attested from 1680s....

neap

late 15c., from Old English nepflod "neap flood," the tide occurring at the end of the first and third quarters of the lunar...

epact

of days into the calendar moon on which the solar year begins;" 1580s, "number of days by which the solar year exceeds a lunar...

phase

General (non-lunar) sense of "aspect, appearance, stage of development at a particular time" is attested by 1841....

leap year

Compare Medieval Latin saltus lunae (Old English monan hlyp) "omission of one day in the lunar calendar every 19 years."...

bank

"financial institution," late 15c., originally "money-dealer's counter or shop," from Old Italian banca and also from French banque (itself from the Italian word), both meaning "table," from a Germanic source (such as Old High German bank "bench, moneylender's table"), from Proto

aubergine

"fruit of the eggplant" (Solanum esculentum), 1775, from French aubergine, from Catalan alberginera (showing typical change of al- to au- in French), from Arabic al-badinjan "the eggplant" (source also of Spanish alberengena, 15c.), from Persian badin-gan, from Sanskrit vatigagam

please

c. 1300, plesen, "to please or satisfy (a deity), propitiate, appease," from Old French plaisir "to please, give pleasure to, satisfy" (11c., Modern French plaire, the form of which is perhaps due to analogy of faire), from Latin placere "to be acceptable, be liked, be approved,"

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