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)

1. (rare) millilux (unit of illuminance)

Etymology 2

From n (“nitrogen”) +‎ ox (“oxide”).

Noun

nox (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of NOx (nitrogen oxides)
2. Abbreviation of nitrous oxide.

   Coordinate term: nos

Anagrams

• XON

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *nokts

Latin nox

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 Latin) IPA^(key): /noks/, [nɔks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /noks/, [nɔks]

Noun

nox f (genitive noctis); third declension

1. 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

2. darkness
3. a dream
4. (figuratively) confusion
5. (figuratively) ignorance
6. (figuratively) death

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	nox	noctēs
genitive	noctis	noctium
dative	noctī	noctibus
accusative	noctem	noctēs noctīs
ablative	nocte	noctibus
vocative	nox	noctēs

Synonyms

• (darkness): creperum, obscūritās

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “night”): diēs

Hyponyms

• crepusculum; vesper; conticinium; media nox, intempesta nox, intempestum; gallicinium; matutinum, aurora; diluculum

Derived terms

• dē nocte
• iūs prīmae noctis
• multā nocte
• noctescō
• nocticolor
• noctifer
• noctilūca
• noctipuga
• noctivagus
• noctū
• noctua
• noctuābundus
• noctuīnus
• noctulūcus
• nocturnus
• noctuvigilus
• Nox

 

Descendants

• Balkan-Romance:
  • Aromanian: noapti, noapte, nopti
  • Istro-Romanian: nopte
  • Megleno-Romanian: noapti
  • Romanian: noapte
• Dalmatian:
  • nuot, nuat
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: notte
  • Italian: notte
  • Neapolitan: notte
  • Sicilian: notti
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: nôt, nòcc
    • Old Lombard: nog
      • Lombard: neucc, nòcc, nò
    • Piedmontese: nog
      • Piedmontese: neuit (western), neucc (eastern)
  • Friulian: gnot
  • Istriot: nuoto, noto
  • Romansch: not, notg
  • Venetan: note
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: nuet, nait, noit, not, net, nit, gnuet
  • Old French: noit, nuit
    • Bourguignon: neut
    • Champenois: nutie, neut
    • Franc-Comtois: neût
    • Middle French: nuyt
      • French: nuit
        • Haitian Creole: nwit
    • 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
    • Mirandese: nuite
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: noite, noute
    • Fala: noiti
    • Galician: noite, note, noute, nuite
    • Portuguese: noite, noute (dated) (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: noche
    • Ladino: noche
    • Spanish: noche
• 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^[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
    
• “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

Etymology

From Proto-Loloish *s-nökᴴ (Bradley). Cognate with Nuosu ꆖꂷ (nur ma, “soybean”), Burmese ပဲနောက် (pai:nauk, “mungbean”), Naxi nvq (“soybean”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [no̠⁴⁴]

Noun

nox 

1. (Yao'an) bean, pea

Middle English

Noun

nox

1. Alternative form of oxe