nocturnus

nocturnus

Latin

Etymology

From nox (“night”, oblique stem: noct-) +‎ -urnus (suffix forming adjectives), on the analogy of diurnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /nokˈtur.nus/, [nɔkˈt̪ʊrnʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nokˈtur.nus/, [nokˈt̪urnus]

Adjective

nocturnus (feminine nocturna, neuter nocturnum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or belonging to the night, nocturnal

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	nocturnus	nocturna	nocturnum		nocturnī	nocturnae	nocturna
Genitive	nocturnī	nocturnae	nocturnī		nocturnōrum	nocturnārum	nocturnōrum
Dative	nocturnō		nocturnō		nocturnīs
Accusative	nocturnum	nocturnam	nocturnum		nocturnōs	nocturnās	nocturna
Ablative	nocturnō	nocturnā	nocturnō		nocturnīs
Vocative	nocturne	nocturna	nocturnum		nocturnī	nocturnae	nocturna

Derived terms

• nocturna (Medieval Latin)
• nocturnālis (Late Latin)

Descendants

• Catalan: nocturn
• Friulian: noturni
• Italian: notturno
  • → English: notturno
• Mirandese: noturno
• Old French: notorne
• Piedmontese: noturn
• Sardinian: noturnu
• Spanish: *nochorno
  • ⇒ *nochorniego, nocharniego
• → Old High German: nuohturn
  • Middle High German: nüehtern
    • German: nüchtern
    • Hunsrik: nichter
• → French: nocturne (learned)
  • → English: nocturne
  • → Romanian: nocturn
• → Galician: nocturno (learned)
• → Portuguese: noturno (learned)
• → Spanish: nocturno (learned)

Further reading

• “nocturnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nocturnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nocturnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum