英文词源
- lunar
- lunar: [17] Latin lūna ‘moon’ came from an Indo- European base which also produced English light (not to mention a range of Latin ‘light’- words, such as lūx and lūmen, which have given English illustrate, lucid, luminous, lustre, etc). It had two adjectival derivatives: lūnāris, which simply meant ‘of the moon’, and was borrowed by English as lunar; and lūnāticus.
This was originally used for ‘living on the moon’, but subsequently came to employed in the sense ‘crazy’, from the notion that certain sorts of periodic madness were caused by the phases of the moon. English acquired it via Old French lunatique as lunatic [13].
=> illustrate, light, luminous, lunatic, lustre - lunar (adj.)
- "crescent-shaped," early 15c.; "pertaining to the moon," 1620s, from Old French lunaire (15c.), from Latin lunaris "of the moon," from luna "moon" (with capital L- "moon goddess"); see Luna.
中文词源
lunar（月亮的）：罗马神话中的月亮女神卢娜
罗马神话中，月亮女神叫做“卢娜”（Luna），对应于希腊神话中的塞勒涅。她是光亮之神的女儿，太阳神和黎明女神的姐妹。她爱上了英俊的牧羊人恩底弥翁。每天夜间，卢娜都从空中飘下偷吻熟睡中的牧羊人。然而女神的失职引起了主神宙斯的注意。为了消除凡人对女神的诱惑，宙斯给了恩底弥翁两个选择：任何形式的死亡；或者在永远的梦幻中青春永在。牧羊人选择了后者。于是卢娜每天晚上，来到他沉睡的山洞，亲吻他的脸颊。最后她为自己的爱人生下了五十个女儿。
月亮的阴晴圆缺影响地球的潮汐涨退甚至生物周期，故此古时的人们相信月亮拥有使人疯狂的魔力，人狼等传说亦是因此而生。
从卢娜的名字Luna中产生了词根lun，表示月亮。
Luna：['lju:nə]n.月亮，月神
lunar：['luːnə]adj.月亮的，阴历的
lunatic：['luːnətɪk]adj.精神错乱的
lunacy：['luːnəsɪ]n.精神失常
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：lunar 词源，lunar 含义。
lunar：月亮的
来自拉丁文luna,月亮，词源同lumen,light.
lunar：月的，月亮的
词根词缀： -lun-月亮 + -ar形容词词尾