Word Parts - luna, luni, lun, lunu

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luna, luni-, lun-, lunu-: From Latin moon, light, shine

demilune - half-moon, a crescent; cislunar - lying or situated between the earth and the moon;

lunatic - originally, affected with the kind of insanity that was supposed to have recurring periods dependent on the changes of the moon; lunation - time from one new moon to the next; luniform - shaped like the moon; lunula - white crescent-shaped mark at the base of the finger-nail; lunar - reference to the moon.

And for you:

circumlunar; translunary; sublunary; novilunium; lunambulism; lunarology; lunific; medialuna.

Source: English-Word Information, Word Info About English Vocabulary