nox
See also: Nox, NOx, and ΝΟΧ
English
Etymology 1
From Latin nox (“night; darkness”), by analogy with lux from Latin lūx (“light; daylight, day”). Doublet of night.
Noun
nox (plural nox)
- (rare) millilux (unit of illuminance)
Etymology 2
n (“nitrogen”) + ox (“oxide”)
Noun
nox (uncountable)
- Alternative form of NOx (nitrogen oxides)
- Abbreviation of nitrous oxide.
- Coordinate term: nos
Anagrams
- XON
Latin
Etymology
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
- (Classical) IPA(key): /noks/, [nɔks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /noks/, [nɔks]
Noun
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.
- Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 26:
- Silentio noctis
- By the silence of night
- Silentio noctis
- darkness
- a dream
- (figuratively) confusion
- (figuratively) ignorance
- (figuratively) death
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | nox | noctēs |
Genitive | noctis | noctium |
Dative | noctī | noctibus |
Accusative | noctem | noctīs noctēs |
Ablative | nocte | noctibus |
Vocative | nox | noctēs |
Synonyms
- (darkness): creperum, obscūritās
Antonyms
- (night): diēs
Hyponyms
- crepusculum; vesper; conticinium; media nox, intempesta nox, intempestum; gallicinium; matutinum, aurora; diluculum
Derived terms
- dē nocte
- multā nocte
- noctescō
- nocticolor
- noctifer
- noctilūca
- noctipuga
- noctivagus
- noctū
- noctua
- noctuābundus
- noctuīnus
- noctulūcus
- nocturnus
- noctuvigilus
- Nox
- prīmā nocte
Descendants
- Balkan-Romance:
- Aromanian: noapti, noapte, nopti
- Istro-Romanian: nopte
- Romanian: noapte
- Dalmatian:
- nuot, nuat
- Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: notte
- Italian: notte
- Neapolitan: notte
- Sicilian: notti
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Emilian: nôt, nòcc
- Lombard: neucc, nòcc, nò
- Piedmontese: neuit (western), neucc (eastern)
- Friulian: gnot
- Istriot: nuoto, noto
- Romansch: not, notg
- Venetian: note
- Gallo-Italic:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: nuet, nait, noit, not, net, nit, gnuet
- Old French: noit, nuit
- Bourguignon: neut
- Champenois: nutie
- Middle French: nuyt
- French: nuit
- Haitian Creole: nwit
- French: nuit
- Norman: gniaette, gniet, niet, nyit
- Walloon: nute
- Occitano-Romance:
- Gascon: nuèit, nueit, nèit, net, nèi, nuit
- Old Catalan: nuyt, nit
- Catalan: nit
- Occitan:
- Auvergnat: neut, nueit
- Languedocien: nuèit, nèit, nuèch, nuòch, nhuèch, nhòch, nèch
- Limousin: nuech, nueit
- Provençal: nuech, nhuech
- Vivaro-Alpine: nuech, nhuech, neit
- Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: nueit, nuet, nuei
- Ribagorçan: nit
- Mozarabic: نخت (nuxti)
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: nueche, nueite (western)
- Extremaduran: nochi
- Leonese: nueite, nuoite, nueiche
- Old Portuguese: noite
- Galician: noite, nuite
- Portuguese: noite (see there for further descendants)
- Old Spanish: noche
- Ladino: noche
- Spanish: noche
- Aragonese: nueit, nuet, nuei
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: notti (Campidanese), notte (Logudorese, Nuorese)
- Borrowings:
- → English: nox
- → Esperanto: nokto
References
- “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, 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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Lolopo
Etymology
From Proto-Loloish *s-nökᴴ (Bradley). Cognate with Sichuan Yi ꆖꂷ (nur ma, “soybean”), Burmese ပဲနောက် (pai:nauk, “mungbean”), Naxi nvq (“soybean”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [no̠⁴⁴]
Noun
nox
- (Yao'an) bean, pea
Middle English
Noun
nox
- Alternative form of oxe