nox

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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

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

    Noun

    nox f (genitive noctis); third declension

    1. night (period of time)
      media noxmidnight
      Nox pars obscura diei est.Night is the dim part of the day.
    2. darkness
    3. a dream
    4. (figuratively) confusion
    5. (figuratively) ignorance
    6. (figuratively) death

    Declension

    Third-declension noun (i-stem).

    Case Singular Plural
    Nominative nox noctēs
    Genitive noctis noctium
    Dative noctī noctibus
    Accusative noctem noctēs
    noctīs
    Ablative nocte noctibus
    Vocative nox noctēs

    Synonyms

    Antonyms

    • (antonym(s) of night): diēs

    Hyponyms

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    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
    • 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 (nur ma, soybean), Burmese ပဲနောက် (pai:nauk, mungbean), Naxi nvq (soybean).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    nox 

    1. (Yao'an) bean, pea

    Middle English

    Noun

    nox

    1. Alternative form of oxe