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Italian
Etymology
Literally, “deep night”.
Noun
notte fonda f (plural notti fonde)
- (idiomatic) dead of night
- a notte fonda ― in the dead of night
2020, Barack Obama, chapter 27, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:Benché sull'altra sponda dell'Atlantico fosse notte fonda, contattai anche David Cameron, per riconoscere il leale sostegno che il nostro più stretto alleato ci aveva fornito sin dall'inizio della guerra in Afghanistan.- Though it was the middle of the night across the Atlantic, I contacted David Cameron as well, to recognize the stalwart support our closest ally had provided from the very beginning of the Afghan War.
- (literally, “Though on the other shore of the Atlantic it was the dead of night, I contacted David Cameron, to recognize the loyal support that our closest ally had given us right from the beginning of the war in Afghanistan.”)