nottetempo

Italian

Etymology

notte (“night”) +‎ tempo (“time”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /not.teˈtɛm.po/
• Rhymes: -ɛmpo
• Hyphenation: not‧te‧tèm‧po

Adverb

nottetempo

1. at night, during the nighttime

   Synonym: di notte

   • 1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno - Sesta”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 61:

     “Guglielmo,” stava dicendo, “erano sul punto di uccidermi, sai, ho dovuto fuggire nottetempo.”

     "Guglielmo," he was saying, "they were about to kill me, you know, I had to flee at night."

Related terms

• notturno