Lune

Lune or Luna is a poetic name for Earth's Moon. Lune is French for Moon. Luna is Latin (and also Spanish/Italian/Russian) for Moon.

It may also refer to:

  • Rivers:
    • River Lune in Lancashire and Cumbria, England
    • River Lune (Durham) in England
    • Lune (river) a 43 km long tributary of the Weser in Germany
  • Place names:
    • Lune Forest in Cumbria, UK
  • Mathematics:
    • Lune (mathematics)
    • Lune of Hippocrates, in geometry a plane region bounded by arcs of circles and amenable to quadrature
  • Literature:
    • Lune (poetry), a fixed-form variant of haiku in English
  • Sport:
    • In real tennis, a point scoring opening in a jeu quarré court
  • Fictional places and characters:
    • Lhûn or River Lune in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
    • Gulf of Lune, where the latter flowed
    • King Lune a fictional character in The Horse and His Boy in The Chronicles of Narnia
    • Balron Lune a fictional character in Saint Seiya
    • Misha Arsellec Lune, a fictional character from Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia