It does. The moon is officially called Luna.
Also people have been known to all their cat Neko which is Japanese for cat.
Our moon is officially called Moon. Luna is just something used occasionally, but not always. The sun is also officially named Sun. It’s just that those terms started being overloaded after we learned that there were other Moons and Suns. You can try to get all fancy with Sol and Luna, but those are just old Latin terms for Moon and Sun. They’re no less generic than the ones we currently use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon#Names_and_etymology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Etymology****Other satellites and stars
The official name is “The Moon”, Luna just means moon in Latin. It’s all about capitalization. Moon is our moon, and moon is any moon.
Except “luna” is latin for “Moon”, which means that in many neolatin languages the problem is still there. Probably Selene would be good for every language, She’s the whatever goddess of the whateverness of our Moon or whatever
Except when Latin was spoken actively there was only one such body with the name “Luna”, so it’s a proper noun.
My cat is called Luna 🐱
So perhaps we could name our moon Cat, or perhaps Felis, you know, for the symetry.
Hahaha imagine:
“Dad look! There is a full cat out tonight!”
Like the Cheshire Cat?
Luna is the Latin word for moon. It’s not the official name in English. It’s just called “Moon” in English, just like the sun is just called “Sun” despite being many other words in other languages.
Because there is just one of them it’s not really necessary to give it a unique name, but there are lots of options in Latin, Greek and other languages if you want to get fancy.
Wdym? Sun is the name, Star is the type of celestial body, Moon is the name, satellite is the type of celestial body. This post is a farce, don’t fall for OP’s BS!
Wdym is a terrible name
Whoever downvoted you has no sense of humor :/ “wdym” is a great name but not for the moon!
Well I call it Luna, and I speak English, so it’s called Luna in English.
The moon has a number of names. Luna is the most common in English.
Most people also don’t see a multitude of different moons on a day-to-day basis.
Moon, in Old English Mōna, and in Old Norse Máni, was originally the name for Earth’s moon.
The term kinda just got genericised.
What like Kleenex?
Time for something better. As long as it’s not “McMoonface”.
Dear god, don’t let reddit name the fucking moon.
The moon is a satellite…
And could still carry a name. People assign names to all types of machines, aka: satellites.
Yes and the name we gave it was moon. And satellite means object in orbit around a planet. It’s not a necessarily a machine.
Moon is a dull name. It needs something better.
Is the moon our pet?
A lot of people call their cat “cat”.
I’m confident that many more use a name.
Yeah, but each of them uses a different name. If you counted the frequency of the names, you might find out that Dog and Cat are among the common ones.
And just as dull/dumb as moon.
First people to colonize her get to name her. Maybe by 2050 we’ll have a nice moon base, and whoever is up there will start affectionately referring to the station and surface as something, and at that point, she’ll finally have her name.
Possibly. Better be more poignant than “Alpha”.
The “moon” belongs to humanity. We should pick a better name.
I know a pack of wolves who disagree
The “moon” belongs to humanity
Says who?
Found the Taker.
I say we name it “Thatsno”
Hmmm, put it on the ballot.
We should give all the celestial bodies unique IDs instead of names
I think every celestial body we know of already has a unique name/ID
Like a serial number?
Lame
Obligatory, The Moon is a moon!
Hmm, she ain’t so smart.
I propose: Leroy, the möön
I’ll add it to the poll.
Moon Moon?
No no.
