noche

Ladino

Alternative forms

• noce (Romania), noče (Yugoslavia), notche (France)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts

Proto-Italic *nokts

Latin nox

Old Spanish noche

Ladino noche

Inherited from Old Spanish noche, from Latin nox, from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔtʃɛ/

Noun

noche f (Hebrew spelling נוג׳י)

1. night

   Antonym: día

   • 2019, Silvyo OVADYA, “Hanukah Alegre”, in Şalom Gazetesi‎^[2]:

     Alhad la noche vamos a asender la primera kandela de muestras Hanukiyas.

     Sunday night we're going to light the first candle on our Hanukiyas.

Old French

Alternative forms

• noiche

Noun

noche oblique singular, f (oblique plural noches, nominative singular noche, nominative plural noches)

1. buckle; clasp

References

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “noche”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.

Old Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts

Proto-Italic *nokts

Latin nox

Old Spanish noche

Inherited from Latin nox, from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnotʃe/

Noun

noche f (plural noches)

1. night

Descendants

• Ladino: noche
• Spanish: noche

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts

Proto-Italic *nokts

Latin nox

Old Spanish noche

Spanish noche

Inherited from Old Spanish noche, from Latin nox, from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnot͡ʃe/ [ˈno.t͡ʃe]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -otʃe
• Syllabification: no‧che

Noun

noche f (plural noches)

1. night (the period between sunset and sunrise)

   Antonym: día

   por la noche ― at night

   durante la noche ― at night / overnight / at night time

2. evening (after sunset)

   Synonym: tarde

Derived terms

• a boca de noche
• a buenas noches
• a la caída de la noche
• alcalde de noche
• anoche
• anteojo de noche
• bella de noche
• buenas noches
• dama de noche
• de la noche a la mañana
• de noche
• de noche todos los gatos son pardos
• día y noche
• dondiego de noche
• durante la noche
• el día y la noche
• galán de noche
• hacerse de noche
• la noche de los tiempos
• la noche es capa de pecadores
• medianoche
• mesa de noche
• mesilla de noche
• mesita de noche
• mico de noche
• noche cerrada
• noche de bodas
• Noche de Brujas
• noche de perros
• noche oscura del alma
• noche y día
• Nochebuena
• nochero
• Nochevieja
• reina de la noche
• rollo de una noche
• saco de noche
• tarde-noche
• terminar la noche<t:to call it a night
• traje de noche

Adverb

noche

1. after dark, (late) at night, nocturnally

   Synonyms: de noche, por la noche

   Me gusta jugar videojuegos noche.

   I like playing videogames at night.

   Llegamos a casa muy noche.

   We arrived home late at night.

   Ya es algo noche, tengo que ir a dormir.

   It's bit late (at night), I need to go to sleep.

Usage notes

• In Mexico and Central America, the adverb might accept degree adverbs (e.g. algo, muy, un poco, etc.), shifting its meaning to "late at night". The same phenomenon is observed in de noche (e.g. "Es muy de noche para estudiar." ("It's too late at night to study.")).

Related terms

• anochecer
• nocturno

See also

• mañana
• tarde

Further reading

• “noche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025