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Meaning of root word luna. For example egotist has a root word of ego plus the suffix -ist Acting has the root word act. A root word is a word or word part that can form the basis of new words through the addition of prefixes and suffixes. Thats because lunatic originally meant someone who went crazy with every phase of the moon kind of like a werewolf.

The surface of the moon the moon s surface or the lunar surface. Luna- luni- lun- lunu- apolune s noun apolunes pl The point in the orbit of a spacecraft circling the moon when it is farthest from the moons center. What does luna mean in Latin.

Latin Lūna from lūna moon. Cognates include Armenian լուսին lusin Spanish luna Portuguese lua Romanian lună Russian луна luná. Affected with periodic insanity dependent on the changes of the moon from Old French lunatique See definitions of lunatic.

From the Latin word for moon luna we have the adjective lunar. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. The King James Version of the Bible records lunatick in the Gospel of Matthew which has been interpreted as a reference to epilepsy.

Copyright 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. And from the same origin we have the noun lunatic originally a person who was thought to suffer cycles of insanity. Definition and spelling of the word LUNA.

Found 100 words containing luna. You can say for example. Nox umbra somnus sidus arctos.