lunula

== English == === Alternative forms === lunule === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin lūnula. By surface analysis, luna +‎ -ula. === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): (second syllable stressed) /ˈlun.ju.lə/, (second syllable unstressed) /ˈlun.jʊ.lə/ === Noun === lunula (plural lunulae or (archaic) lunulæ) (anatomy) Something shaped like a crescent or half-moon; especially the pale area at the base of the fingernail. (Ancient Rome, historical) A crescent moon-shaped pendant worn by girls in Ancient Rome. ==== Derived terms ==== azure lunula lunular lunulate ==== Translations ==== === See also === eponychium == Finnish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin lūnula. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈlunulɑ/, [ˈlunulɑ̝] Rhymes: -unulɑ Syllabification(key): lu‧nu‧la Hyphenation(key): lu‧nu‧la === Noun === lunula (anatomy) lunula (pale area at the base of a fingernail) ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== puolikuu === Anagrams === laulun == Indonesian == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin lūnula. === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /luˈnula/ [luˈnu.la] Rhymes: -ula Syllabification: lu‧nu‧la === Noun === lunula (plural lunula-lunula) (anatomy) lunula: something shaped like a crescent or half-moon; especially the pale area at the base of the fingernail (Catholicism) luna, lunette, lunula: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance === Further reading === “lunula”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Italian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin lūnula. === Noun === lunula f (plural lunule) lunette, half-moon, lunula == Latin == === Etymology === From lūna (“moon”) + -ula (forming diminutives). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɫuː.nʊ.ɫa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈluː.nu.la] === Noun === lūnula f (genitive lūnulae); first declension an ornament in the form of a little moon ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== lūnulātus ==== Descendants ==== English: lunule, lunula French: lunule Italian: lunula Spanish: lúnula === References === “lunula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "lunula", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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. == Polish == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin lūnula. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /luˈnu.la/ Rhymes: -ula Syllabification: lu‧nu‧la === Noun === lunula f (Ancient Rome, historical) lunula (crescent moon-shaped pendant worn by girls in Ancient Rome) (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 ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “lunula”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[1] (in Polish)