See also: Noctiluca

English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English noctilūca.

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Noun edit

noctiluca (countable and uncountable, plural noctilucae or noctilucas)

  1. (obsolete) A firefly, glowworm.
    • 1917, Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington:
      If a number of noctilucas are punctured with a needle, causing the cells to collapse, and are then subjected to an interrupted current, they respond just as uninjured cells do.
  2. (obsolete) The moon
  3. (obsolete) A phosphorescent substance
  4. Noctiluca scintillans (sea sparkle).

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

From nox (night) +‎ luceō (to shine).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

noctilūca f (genitive noctilūcae); first declension

  1. (literally) Something which shines by night.
  2. The Moon.
  3. (countable) A candle, a lamp, a lantern

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative noctilūca noctilūcae
Genitive noctilūcae noctilūcārum
Dative noctilūcae noctilūcīs
Accusative noctilūcam noctilūcās
Ablative noctilūcā noctilūcīs
Vocative noctilūca noctilūcae

References edit

  • noctiluca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • noctiluca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • noctiluca 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)
  • noctiluca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • noctiluca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "Noctĭlūca", in Charles Anthon, A Latin-English and English-Latin dictionary, for the use of schools, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852 (1853 printing), p. 586. →OCLC.
  • "noctĭlūca" in James Robert Vernam Marchant, Joseph F. Charles, eds., Cassell's Latin dictionary (in English and Latin), New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953 printing, p. 366. →OCLC.
  • "Noctilūca", in George R. Crooks, Alexander J. Schem, eds., A new Latin-English school lexicon : on the basis of the Latin-German lexicon of Dr. C. F. Ingerslev, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1867, p. 610. →OCLC.
  • "nōctĭlūcă", in Frederick Percival Leverett, ed., A new and copious lexicon of the Latin language, new ed., Boston: Bazin & Ellsworth, 1850, v. 1, p. 570. →OCLC.

Middle English edit

Etymology edit

From Medieval Latin noctilūca (something which shines by night).

Noun edit

noctilūca (plural noctilucae)

  1. A firefly, glowworm.
  2. Misspelling of noctilupa (nyctalopia).

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