plenilune
English
Etymology
Latin plēnilūnium, from plēnus (“full”) + lūna (“moon”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpliːnɪluːn/
Noun
plenilune (plural plenilunes)
- (poetic) The full moon.
- 1600 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Revels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, OCLC 960101342:
- Whose glory (like a lasting Plenilune) Seems ignorant of what it is to wane
- 1922, Clark Ashton Smith, Desire of Vastness:
- And white limbs glitter in the plenilune; / And where a voice more human, more divine, / Commends a brother dead to Proserpine.
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Further reading
- “plenilune”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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