sublunar

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

sub- +‎ lunar

Adjective[edit]

sublunar (not comparable)

  1. Situated beneath the Moon.
    • 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. []”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. [], volume I, London: Edward Moxon [], published 1839, →OCLC, page 234:
      The City’s moon-lit spires and myriad lamps,
      Like stars in a sublunar sky did glow,
      And fires blazed far amid the scattered camps,
      Like springs of flame, which burst where’er swift Earthquake stamps.
  2. Of this world; earthly.

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Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French sublunaire.

Adjective[edit]

sublunar m or n (feminine singular sublunară, masculine plural sublunari, feminine and neuter plural sublunare)

  1. sublunary

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Spanish[edit]

Adjective[edit]

sublunar m or f (masculine and feminine plural sublunares)

  1. sublunar

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