I.to bend like a half-moon or crescent, to crook like a sickle (rare in the verb. finit.; freq. in the P. a.): “lunavit fortiter arcum,” Ov. Am. 1, 1, 23: “acies geminos in arcus,” Prop. 4 (5), 6, 25.—Hence, lūnātus , a, um, P. a., half-moon-shaped, crescent-shaped, lunated, falcated: “Amazonidum peltae,” Verg. A. 1, 490: “lunata/ fronte juvenci,” Stat. Th. 6, 265: “lunatis obliquatur cornibus,” Plin. 6, 13, 15, § 38: “conchae,” id. 9, 33, 52, § 102: “ferramentum,” Col. 12, 54.— Hence, bearing a crescent; marked with something of a crescent shape: “lunatum agmen,” a line of battle with shields of crescent shape, Stat. Th. 5, 145: pellis, a senator's shoe (v. luna, I. 3.), Mart. 1, 49, 31.
lūno , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. 1. luna,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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