luna-, luni-, lun-, lunu-

(Latin: moon, light, shine)

lunation
1. The time from one new moon to the next, constituting a lunar month (29.5 days).
2. The time of the full moon.
lunatism
Sleep walking; obviously, when there is some form of the shining moon.
lune
Anything that is shaped like the crescent or half-moon.
lunette
1. Any of various figures or objects shaped like a half-moon or a crescent.
2. A crescentiform or semicircular space in a ceiling, dome, etc., decorated with paintings or sculptures; a piece of decoration filling such a space.
3. In the guillotine, the circular hole which receives the neck of the victim.
lunific
A substance capable of transmuting other substances into silver; producing silver.
luniform
Shaped like the moon.
lunik
Any of a series of Russian spacecraft sent to or near the moon.
lunisolar
1. Pertaining to the mutual relations of the sun and moon, or resulting from their combined action.
2. Lunisolar period: a cycle of 532 years, that number being the product of 19 and 28, the numbers of years in the cycles of the moon and sun respectively.
3. Lunisolar year: a year whose divisions are regulated by the revolutions of the moon, while its average total length is made to agree with the revolution of the sun.
lunitidal
A reference to the movements of the tide which are dependent on the moon or caused by the gravitational pull of the moon.
lunolatry
Worshiping the moon.
lunula
1. The white crescent-shaped mark at the base of the finger-nail.
2. A gold, crescent-shaped, neck ornament found in archaeological sites of the Early Bronze Age
lunular
A reference to a lune or lunule; in the form of a lunule, crescent-shaped.
medialuna
1. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated.
2. The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
3. An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; now called, a ravelin.
novilunar (adjective) (no comparatives)
A reference to a new moon that has been waxing for a month.
perilune
That point at which a spacecraft in lunar orbit is closest to the moon's center: applied especially if the spacecraft was launched from the moon.

Etymologically related "light, shine, glow" word families: ethero-; fulg-; luco-; lumen-, lum-; lustr-; phengo-; pheno-; phospho-; photo-; scinti-, scintill-; splendo-.


A cross reference of word units that are related, directly or indirectly, to the: "moon": Calendar, Moon Facts; Chemical Element: selenium; Gods and Goddesses; Luna, the earth moon; menisc-; meno-; Planets in Motion; plano- seleno-.