crepusculum
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin crepusculum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]crepusculum (uncountable)
- crepuscule; twilight; dusk
- [Earthshine] should appear more splendid and be visible after the crepusculum in the dark of night.
Synonyms
[edit]- cockshut, mirkning, nightfall; see also Thesaurus:dusk
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[edit]References
[edit]- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “crepusculum”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately Unknown. Possibly from *crepus, *crepes, or *crepos combined with the suffix -culus. One possibility holds that this originates in a Proto-Indo-European form *ksep, that became *ksep-os or *ksep-əs-, then *ksep-os before emerging as *crepus. This sound could be explained through the dissimilation of the initial *s or through a shift from *ks- to *kr-. Varro suggests the term derives from creper, which was itself borrowed from Sabine.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kreˈpus.ku.lum/, [krɛˈpʊskʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kreˈpus.ku.lum/, [kreˈpuskulum]
Noun
[edit]crepusculum n (genitive crepusculī); second declension
- twilight, dusk
- darkness
- doubtful
- Synonym: dubium
- 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina 6.5:
- Secundum hoc dicitur crepusculum a crepero: id vocabulum sumpserunt a Sabinis, unde veniunt Crepusci nominati Amiterno, qui eo tempore erant nati, ut Lucii prima luce in Reatino; crepusculum significat dubium; ab eo res dictae dubiae creperae, quod crepusculum dies etiam nunc sit an iam nox multis dubium.
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- Secundum hoc dicitur crepusculum a crepero: id vocabulum sumpserunt a Sabinis, unde veniunt Crepusci nominati Amiterno, qui eo tempore erant nati, ut Lucii prima luce in Reatino; crepusculum significat dubium; ab eo res dictae dubiae creperae, quod crepusculum dies etiam nunc sit an iam nox multis dubium.
Usage notes
[edit]In Medieval use (e.g., Bede), sometimes conceived as a particular period of evening lasting from sunset to vespers, the darker period of twilight when Venus and the stars began to appear.
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
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nominative | crepusculum | crepuscula |
genitive | crepusculī | crepusculōrum |
dative | crepusculō | crepusculīs |
accusative | crepusculum | crepuscula |
ablative | crepusculō | crepusculīs |
vocative | crepusculum | crepuscula |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- >? Galician: crepúsculo
- >? Italian: crepuscolo m
- >? Occitan: crepuscul m
- → Catalan: crepuscle m
- → Old French: crepuscule m
- Middle French: crepuscule m
- French: crépuscule m
- → Romanian: crepuscul n
- → English: crepuscule
- French: crépuscule m
- Middle French: crepuscule m
- →? Portuguese: crepúsculo
- → Spanish: crepúsculo
- → English: crepusculum, crepuscular
References
[edit]- “crepusculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “crepusculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "crepusculum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- crepusculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Annie Cecilia Burman (2018 March 24) De Lingua Sabina: A Reappraisal of the Sabine Glosses[1], , pages 62-64
- Walter Petersen (1935) “Some Greek Examples of Word-Contamination”, in The American Journal of Philology[2] (in Latin), volume 56, number 1, , →ISSN, pages 54–60
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