English Explanatory Dictionary

lunate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Shaped like a crescent.
noun
  1. A small stone artifact, probably an arrowhead, with a blunt straight edge and a sharpened, crescent-shaped back, especially characteristic of the Mesolithic Period.
  2. The lunate bone.

Pronunciation

/ˈluːneɪt/

Word forms

lunate more lunate most lunate lunates

Etymology

First attested in 1777; borrowed from Latin lūnātus (“crescent-shaped”), from lūna (“moon”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Derived words

capitolunate lunate bone lunated lunately lunate sigma perilunate postlunate prelunate radiolunate scapholunate semilunate sublunate
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on L Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary