nox

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See also: Nox, NOx, and ΝΟΧ

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

    Learned borrowing from Latin nox, from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

    Noun

    nox (plural noctes or (deprecated) noxes or (proscribed) noces)

    1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) The period of darkness in each twenty-four hours; a night.

    Etymology 2

    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 3

    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

      Inherited 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 obscūra diēī 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).

      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

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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