nox

See also: Nox and NOx

English

Noun

nox (plural nox)

1. (rare) millilux (unit of illuminance)

Anagrams

• XON

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Cognates include Ancient Greek νύξ (núx), Sanskrit नक्ति (nákti), Old English niht (English night) and Proto-Slavic *noťь.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /noks/, [nɔks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /noks/, [nɔks]

Noun

nox f (genitive noctis); third declension

1. night (period of time)

   Nox pars obscura diei est.

   Night is the dim part of the day.

2. darkness
3. a dream
4. (figuratively) confusion
5. (figuratively) ignorance
6. (figuratively) death

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nox	noctēs
Genitive	noctis	noctium
Dative	noctī	noctibus
Accusative	noctem	noctīs noctēs
Ablative	nocte	noctibus
Vocative	nox	noctēs

Synonyms

• (darkness): creperum, obscūritās

Antonyms

• (night): diēs

Hyponyms

• crepusculum; vesper; conticinium; media nox, intempesta nox, intempestum; gallicinium; matutinum, aurora; diluculum

Derived terms

• dē nocte
• multā nocte
• noctescō
• nocticolor
• noctifer
• noctilūca
• noctipuga
• noctivagus
• noctū
• noctua
• noctuābundus
• noctuīnus
• noctulūcus
• nocturnus
• noctuvigilus
• prīmā nocte

 

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Balkan-Romance:
    • Aromanian: noapti
    • Istro-Romanian: nopte
    • Romanian: noapte
  • Dalmatian: nuat
  • Istriot: nuoto, noto
• Southern Romance:
  • Sardinian:
    • Campidanese: notti
    • Logudorese: notte
    • Nuorese: notte
• Western Romance:
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Emilian: nôt
      • Piedmontese: neuit
    • Occitano-Romance:
      • Old Occitan: noit
        • Catalan: nit
        • Occitan: nuèit, nuèch
    • Oïl:
      • Old French: nuit, noit
        • Middle French: nuyt
          • French: nuit
            • Haitian Creole: nwit
      • Bourguignon: neut
      • Champenois: nutie
      • Norman: niet
      • Walloon: nute
    • Raeto-Romance:
      • Friulian: gnot
      • Romansch: not, notg

• • Ibero-Romance:
    • Mozarabic: نوخْطِ (nóhte)
    • Navarro-Aragonese:
      • Aragonese: nueit
    • Old Leonese:
      • Asturian: nueche
      • Extremaduran: nochi
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: noite
      • Galician: noite
      • Portuguese: noite
        • Guinea-Bissau Creole: noti
        • Kabuverdianu: noiti
        • Papiamentu: nochi
    • Old Spanish:
      • Ladino: noche
      • Spanish: noche
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Corsican: notte
    • Italian: notte
    • Sicilian: notti
    • Venetian: note
• Esperanto: nokto

References

• “nox”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nox”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nox 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)
• nox in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a star-light night: nox sideribus illustris
    
  • till late at night: ad multam noctem
    
  • in the silence of the night: silentio noctis
    
  • night and day: noctes diesque, noctes et dies, et dies et noctes, dies noctesque, diem noctemque
    
  • to prolong a conversation far into the night: sermonem producere in multam noctem (Rep. 6. 10. 10)
    
  • night breaks up the sitting: nox senatum dirimit
    
  • (ambiguous) while it is still night, day: de nocte, de die
    
  • (ambiguous) late at night: multa de nocte
    
  • (ambiguous) in the dead of night; at midnight: intempesta, concubia nocte
    
• “nox”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nox”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray