nox
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Latin nox (“night; darkness”), by analogy with lux from Latin lūx (“light; daylight, day”). Doublet of night.
Noun
editnox (plural nox)
Etymology 2
editFrom n (“nitrogen”) + ox (“oxide”).
Noun
editnox (uncountable)
- Alternative form of NOx (nitrogen oxides)
- Abbreviation of nitrous oxide.
- Coordinate term: nos
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom 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- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /noks/, [nɔks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /noks/, [nɔks]
Noun
editnox 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
editThird-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
editDescendants
editReferences
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
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Loloish *s-nökᴴ (Bradley). Cognate with Nuosu ꆖꂷ (nur ma, “soybean”), Burmese ပဲနောက် (pai:nauk, “mungbean”), Naxi nvq (“soybean”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editnox
Middle English
editNoun
editnox
- Alternative form of oxe
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