Laune

== German == === Etymology === Via Middle High German lūne (“moon, changing mood, disposition”), borrowed from Latin lūna (“moon”). The semantic association of "moon" to "mood" is based on the similarity of the changing phases of the moon to the changing moods of a person (DWDS). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈlaʊ̯.nə/ === Noun === Laune f (genitive Laune, plural Launen) (often with haben or sein + in + dative) mood, humor whim ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== launenhaft launisch === Further reading === “Laune” in Duden online “Laune”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Laune”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891