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Latin
Etymology
From nox ("night") + -fer ("carrying").
Noun
noctifer m (genitive noctiferī); second declension
- bringer of night
- evening star
- Synonym: vesperūgō
Declension
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
References
- noctifer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) , Oxford: Clarendon Press
- noctifer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) , New York: Harper & Brothers