lunula

• lunule

Borrowed from Latin lūnula.

lunula (plural lunulae or (archaic) lunulæ)

1. (anatomy) Something shaped like a crescent or half-moon; especially the pale area at the base of the fingernail.
2. (Ancient Rome, historical) A crescent moon-shaped pendant worn by girls in Ancient Rome.

• lunular
• lunulate

• eponychium

Borrowed from Latin lūnula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlunulɑ/, [ˈlunulɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -unulɑ
• Syllabification^(key): lu‧nu‧la

lunula

1. (anatomy) lunula (pale area at the base of a fingernail)

• puolikuu

• laulun

Borrowed from Latin lūnula.

lunula f (plural lunule)

1. lunette, half-moon, lunula

lūna (“moon”) +‎ -ula

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈluː.nu.la/, [ˈɫ̪uːnʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.nu.la/, [ˈluːnulä]

lūnula f (genitive lūnulae); first declension

1. an ornament in the form of a little moon

First-declension noun.

• English: lunule, lunula
• French: lunule
• Italian: lunula
• Spanish: lúnula

• “lunula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lunula 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)
• lunula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Learned borrowing from Latin lūnula.

• IPA^(key): /luˈnu.la/

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• Rhymes: -ula
• Syllabification: lu‧nu‧la

lunula f

1. (Ancient Rome, historical) lunula (crescent moon-shaped pendant worn by girls in Ancient Rome)
2. (Christianity, chiefly Catholicism and Anglicanism) lunette, luna (crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the consecrated host upright when exposed in the monstrance)

   Synonyms: melchizedech, melchizedek

• lunula in Polish dictionaries at PWN