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Latin
Etymology
From diēs (“day”) + lūx (“light”) + -ulum.
Pronunciation
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): /diːˈluː.ku.lum/,
Noun
dīlūculum n (genitive dīlūculī); second declension
- daybreak, dawn
- Synonyms: gallicinium, canticinium, ante lucem
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Antonyms
References
- “diluculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “diluculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- diluculum 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)
- diluculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- in the morning twilight: diluculo