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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.
And Moon Moon is my spirit animal.
God dammit Moon Moon.
Luna is the Latin word for moon. Itâs not the official name in English. Itâs just called âMoonâ in English, just like the sun is just called âSunâ despite being many other words in other languages.
Because there is just one of them itâs 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, donât fall for OPâs BS!
Wdym is a terrible name
Whoever downvoted you has no sense of humor :/ âwdymâ is a great name but not for the moon!
Well I call it Luna, and I speak English, so itâs called Luna in English.
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 âLunaâ, so itâs a proper noun.
My cat is called Luna đ±
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?