nokto

Esperanto

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts

Proto-Italic *nokts

Latin noxbor.

Esperanto nokto

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnokto/

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• Rhymes: -okto
• Syllabification: nok‧to

Noun

nokto (accusative singular nokton, plural noktoj, accusative plural noktojn)

1. night

   Antonym: tago

   • 1927, L. L. Zamenhof, transl., La Sankta Biblio [The Holy Bible]‎^[1] (hardcover), London; Edinburgh: British and Foreign Bible Society; Scottish Bible Society, →ISBN, page 5:

     Kaj Dio nomis la lumon Tago, kaj la mallumon Li nomis Nokto.

     And God called the light Day, and He called the darkness Night.

Derived terms

• ĉiunokte (“every night, nightly”)
• nokta (“related to night”)
• noktblinda (“night-blind”)
• noktblindeco (“night blindness”)
• nokte (“at night”)
• nokti (“to be night”)
• noktiĝo (“nightfall”)
• noktmezo (“midnight”)
• noktoĉemizo (“nightshirt”)
• noktoklubo (“nightclub”)
• noktpapilio
• noktvestaĵo (“night clothes”)
• tranokti (“to spend the night”)
• tutnokte (“all night long”)

Ido

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts

Proto-Italic *nokts

Latin noxbor.

Esperanto noktobor.

Ido nokto

Borrowed from Esperanto nokto, borrowed from Latin nox, from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. By surface analysis, noktar (“to be night”) +‎ -o (noun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnokto/

Noun

nokto (plural nokti)

1. night

   Antonym: jorno

Related terms

• noktala (“nocturnal”)
• noktar (“to be night”)
• nokte (“by night, at night”)
• nokteskar (“to become night, turn night”)
• noktesko (“nightfall”)