Sublunar
/ˌsʌbˈluːnər/noun
Situated below the moon; earthly or belonging to the mortal world.
Did you know?In medieval and Renaissance cosmology, the sublunar realm was the changing world beneath the Moon, contrasted with the supposedly perfect, unchanging heavens above.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*lewk-
“to shine, to be bright”
Latin
Latin
lūna
“the Moon”
Latin
Latin
sub- + lūnāris
“under the moon; beneath the lunar sphere”
Late Latin / Medieval Latin
Latin
sublūnāris
“belonging to the region below the Moon”
14th–16th Century
English
sublunar
“pertaining to the earthly world beneath the Moon”
Modern English
English
sublunar
“of or relating to the region below the Moon; earthly”