Talk:sickle moon
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Currently has no citations. Tharthan (talk) 06:13, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
- Cited. Arguably sum of parts, but no more so than crescent moon. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 13:03, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
- I dispute SOP-ness. "Crescent" is a shape but "sickle" is not, and "X moon" doesn't automatically imply "moon shaped like X" (at least we have no shape sense there); the moon is shaped only like a sickle-head, and not the entire thing with its shaft; and a sickle moon might be the one when harvesters go out with their sickles to do harvesting. Equinox ◑ 18:40, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
- The etymology of crescent in the sense of a shape stems from Old French creissant, which means not any crescent shape but, specifically, the crescent moon, after Latin crescens, “waxing“, so “waxing moon“ in Latin is luna crescens (lune croissante in modern French). --Lambiam 20:11, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 22:50, 12 August 2020 (UTC)