noctiluca
See also: Noctiluca
English
Etymology
From Middle English noctilūca.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nŏkˌtĭ.lo͞oˈkə, IPA(key): /ˌnɒk.tɪˈluː.kə/
- (General American) enPR: näkˌtĭ.lo͞oˈkə, IPA(key): /ˌnɑk.tɪˈlu.kə/
- Hyphenation: noc‧ti‧lu‧ca
Noun
noctiluca (countable and uncountable, plural noctilucae or noctilucas)
- (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.
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- (obsolete) The moon
- (obsolete) A phosphorescent substance
- Noctiluca scintillans (sea sparkle).
Descendants
- noctilucal
- noctilucan
References
- noctiluca in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- noctiluca at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “noctiluca, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2003.
Anagrams
- ciclatoun
Latin
Etymology
From nox (“night”) + luceō (“to shine”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /nok.tiˈluː.ka/, [nɔkt̪ɪˈɫ̪uːkä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /nok.tiˈlu.ka/, [nokt̪iˈluːkä]
- Hyphenation: noc‧ti‧lu‧ca
Noun
noctilūca f (genitive noctilūcae); first declension
- (literally) Something which shines by night.
- The Moon.
- 1st c. BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De lingua Latina Liber VX.11, (http://www.intratext.com/IXT/LAT0231/_P5.HTM):
- Luna, vel quod sola lucet noctu. Itaque ea dicta Noctiluca in Palatio: nam ibi noctu lucet templum.
- 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 4.6.37–40:
- rite Latonae puerum canentes,
rite crescentem face Noctilucam,
prosperam frugum celeremque pronos
volvere mensis.
- rite Latonae puerum canentes,
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:noctiluca.
- (countable) A candle, a lamp, a lantern
Declension
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
- “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
Etymology
From Medieval Latin noctilūca (“something which shines by night”).
Noun
noctilūca (plural noctilucae)
- A firefly, glowworm.
- Misspelling of noctilupa (nyctalopia).
References
- “noctiluca, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2015-04-10.
- “noctilupa, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2015-04-10.