wane

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: wain, Wayne
 * Homophones: wain, Wayne
 * Homophones: wain, Wayne
 * Homophones: wain, Wayne
 * Homophones: wain, Wayne

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from.

See also. Compare also 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 deprecated defect, 🇨🇬 ( > 🇨🇬 prefix, only found in compounds), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, Modern 🇨🇬, Modern 🇨🇬, comparative of ( being a derivate suffix;  the suffix of comparatives). ,, , , , , , which are 🇨🇬-derived, via the PIE root.

Noun

 * 1) A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
 * 2) * 1853, Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0146000129, p. 3,
 * In the morning, one might say, his face was of a fine florid hue, but after twelve o'clock, meridian -- his dinner hour -- it blazed like a grate full of Christmas coals; and continued blazing -- but, as it were, with a gradual wane -- till six o'clock, PM, or thereabouts; after which, I saw no more of the proprietor of the face, [...].
 * 1) * 1913, Michael Ott, The Catholic Encyclopedia, "Wenzel Anton Kaunitz",
 * His influence which was on the wane during the reign of Joseph II grew still less during the reign of Leopold II (1790-2).
 * 1) The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
 * 2)  The end of a period.
 * [[Image:S.B. Elliott State Park Cabin 1 crop.jpg|thumb|Wane siding on a cabin at [[w:S.B. Elliott State Park|S.B. Elliott State Park]]]]
 * 1)  A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
 * 2) * 2002, Peter Ross, Appraisal and Repair of Timber Structures, p. 11,
 * Sapwood, or even bark, may appear on the corners, or may have been cut off, resulting in wane, or missing timber.
 * [[Image:S.B. Elliott State Park Cabin 1 crop.jpg|thumb|Wane siding on a cabin at [[w:S.B. Elliott State Park|S.B. Elliott State Park]]]]
 * 1)  A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
 * 2) * 2002, Peter Ross, Appraisal and Repair of Timber Structures, p. 11,
 * Sapwood, or even bark, may appear on the corners, or may have been cut off, resulting in wane, or missing timber.

Usage notes

 * When referring to the moon or a time period, the word is found mostly in prepositional phrases like or.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: hiipuminen
 * French:
 * Latin: decresco
 * Russian:, , ,


 * Finnish: väheneminen
 * French:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: eàrr-dhubh
 * Spanish: menguante de la Luna


 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * Finnish: vajaasärmä
 * French:
 * German: Fehlkante
 * Russian:
 * Welsh: pefel

Etymology 2
From, , from , , from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
 * 2)  Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
 * 3)  Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
 * 4)  Said of a time period that comes to an end.
 * 5)  To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
 * 6)  To cause to decrease.
 * 1)  Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
 * 2)  Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
 * 3)  Said of a time period that comes to an end.
 * 4)  To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
 * 5)  To cause to decrease.
 * 1)  Said of a time period that comes to an end.
 * 2)  To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
 * 3)  To cause to decrease.
 * 1)  To cause to decrease.
 * 1)  To cause to decrease.
 * 1)  To cause to decrease.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Maori: riko, roku, roroku
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: слабшати, спадати


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Irish: téigh ar gcúl
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: mi, roku, roroku
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: minke
 * Nynorsk: minka, minke
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: приближавам се към края си
 * Finnish:


 * Azerbaijani: tükənmək,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:, ;
 * French:
 * German:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: меншати

Etymology 3
From.

Noun

 * 1)  A child.

Etymology 4
From, , of unclear origins, compare wont.

Noun

 * 1)  A house or dwelling.

Etymology 1
. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A type of South American tree that produces hardwood,.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  a cow with a brown hide

Etymology 1
From, and , , related to.

Noun

 * 1) penury, deprivation, neediness
 * 2) lack, absence
 * 3) diminution

Etymology 2
Probably from or, oblique cases of.

Noun

 * 1) woeful, miserable state; adversity; misfortune
 * 2) affliction, tribulation
 * 3) destruction

Etymology 3
From, and , , related to.

Adjective

 * 1) inadequate, incomplete, imperfect
 * 2) lacking, missing, absent