nox
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin nox (“night; darkness”), by analogy with lux from Latin lūx (“light; daylight, day”). Doublet of night.
Noun edit
nox (plural nox)
Etymology 2 edit
n (“nitrogen”) + ox (“oxide”)
Noun edit
nox (uncountable)
- Alternative form of NOx (nitrogen oxides)
- Abbreviation of nitrous oxide.
- Coordinate term: nos
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Cognate with Ancient Greek νύξ (núx), Sanskrit नक्ति (nákti), Old English niht (whence English night), Proto-Slavic *noťь.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nox f (genitive noctis); third declension
- night (period of time)
- media nox ― midnight
- Nox pars obscura diei est. ― Night is the dim part of the day.
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.26:
- Silentio noctis
- By the silence of night
- Silentio noctis
- darkness
- a dream
- (figuratively) confusion
- (figuratively) ignorance
- (figuratively) death
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | nox | noctēs |
Genitive | noctis | noctium |
Dative | noctī | noctibus |
Accusative | noctem | noctēs noctīs |
Ablative | nocte | noctibus |
Vocative | nox | noctēs |
Synonyms edit
- (darkness): creperum, obscūritās
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of "night"): diēs
Hyponyms edit
- crepusculum; vesper; conticinium; media nox, intempesta nox, intempestum; gallicinium; matutinum, aurora; diluculum
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “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
- a star-light night: nox sideribus illustris
- “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
Lolopo edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Loloish *s-nökᴴ (Bradley). Cognate with Nuosu ꆖꂷ (nur ma, “soybean”), Burmese ပဲနောက် (pai:nauk, “mungbean”), Naxi nvq (“soybean”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nox
Middle English edit
Noun edit
nox
- Alternative form of oxe