meridies

la-noun

merīdiēs m (genitive merīdiēī); fifth declension

merīdiēs (canonical masculine)
merīdiēī (genitive)
merīdiēs (nominative singular)
merīdiēs (nominative plural)
merīdiēī (genitive singular)
merīdiērum (genitive plural)
merīdiēī (dative singular)
merīdiēbus (dative plural)
merīdiem (accusative singular)
merīdiēs (accusative plural)
merīdiē (ablative singular)
merīdiēbus (ablative plural)
merīdiēs (singular vocative)
merīdiēs (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: amiridz

Romanian: meriză

Italo-Romance:

Old Italian: merigge

Italian: meriggio

Borrowings:

→ English: meridiem; ⇒ a.m., p.m.

→ Italian: meridie

→ Portuguese: merídio

→ Spanish: meridiem, merídiem

From a dissimilation of earlier medīdiēs, derived from medius (“middle”) + diēs (“day”). The sense of 'south' is due to the southward orientation of the sun at noon in the northern hemisphere.


nox

nox f (genitive noctis); third declension

noctis (genitive)
nox (nominative singular)
noctēs (nominative plural)
noctis (genitive singular)
noctium (genitive plural)
noctī (dative singular)
noctibus (dative plural)
noctem (accusative singular)
noctēs (accusative plural)
noctīs (accusative plural)
nocte (ablative singular)
noctibus (ablative plural)
nox (singular vocative)
noctēs (plural vocative)

Balkan-Romance:

Aromanian: noapti, noapte, nopti

Istro-Romanian: nopte

Megleno-Romanian: noapti

Romanian: noapte

Dalmatian:

nuot, nuat

Italo-Romance:

Corsican: notte

Italian: notte

Neapolitan: notte

Sicilian: notti

North Italian:

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: nôt, nòcc

Old Lombard: nog

Lombard: neucc, nòcc, nò

Piedmontese: nog

desc

Piedmontese: neuit (western), neucc (eastern)

Friulian: gnot

Istriot: nuoto, noto

Romansch: not, notg

Venetian: note

Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: nuet, nait, noit, not, net, nit, gnuet

desctree

Old French: noit, nuit
Bourguignon: neut
Champenois: nutie
Middle French: nuyt
French: nuit
Haitian Creole: nwit
Norman: gniaette, gniet, niet, nyit
Walloon: nute

Occitano-Romance:

desc

Gascon: nuèit, nueit, nèit, net, nèi, nuit

Old Catalan: nuyt, nit

Catalan: nit

Occitan:

Auvergnat: neut, nueit

Languedocien: nuèit, nèit, nuèch, nuòch, nhuèch, nhòch, nèch

Limousin: nuech, nueit

Provençal: nuech, nhuech

Vivaro-Alpine: nuech, nhuech, neit

Ibero-Romance:

Aragonese: nueit, nuet, nuei

Ribagorçan: nit

Mozarabic: نخت (nuxti)

Old Leonese:

Asturian: nueche, nueite (western)

Extremaduran: nochi

Leonese: nueite, nuoite, nueiche

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: noite, noute
Fala: noiti
Galician: noite, note, noute, nuite
Portuguese: noite, noute (dated) (see there for further descendants)
→ Mirandese: nuite

Old Spanish: noche
Ladino: noche
Spanish: noche

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: notti (Campidanese), notte (Logudorese, Nuorese)

Borrowings:

→ English: nox

→ Esperanto: nokto

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.

media nox

Nox pars obscura diei est.

Silentio noctis

c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.26


aurora

la-noun

aurōra f (genitive aurōrae); first declension

aurōra (canonical feminine)
aurōrae (genitive)
aurōra (nominative singular)
aurōrae (nominative plural)
aurōrae (genitive singular)
aurōrārum (genitive plural)
aurōrae (dative singular)
aurōrīs (dative plural)
aurōram (accusative singular)
aurōrās (accusative plural)
aurōrā (ablative singular)
aurōrīs (ablative plural)
aurōra (singular vocative)
aurōrae (plural vocative)

→ English: aurora

French: aurore

Italian: aurora

Romanian: auroră

Spanish: aurora

Portuguese: aurora

From Proto-Italic *auzōs (as Flōra from flōs), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsōs (“dawn”). In the Proto-Indo-European religion it was personified as the goddess of the dawn, corresponding to the Roman goddess Aurōra, from *h₂ews- (“east”). Cognates include the Latin auster, Ancient Greek Ἠώς (Ēṓs), ἠώς (ēṓs), the Sanskrit उषस् (uṣás, “dawn”, “Ushas”), English east.


vesper

vesper m (variously declined, genitive vesperī or vesperis); second declension, third declension

vesperī (genitive)
vesperis (genitive)
vesper (nominative singular)
vesperī (nominative plural)
vesperēs (nominative plural)
vesperī (genitive singular)
vesperis (genitive singular)
vesperōrum (genitive plural)
vesperum (genitive plural)
vesperō (dative singular)
vesperī (dative singular)
vesperīs (dative plural)
vesperibus (dative plural)
vesperum (accusative singular)
vesperem (accusative singular)
vesperōs (accusative plural)
vesperēs (accusative plural)
vespere (ablative singular)
vesperō (ablative singular)
vesperīs (ablative plural)
vesperibus (ablative plural)
vesper (singular vocative)
vesperī (plural vocative)
vesperēs (plural vocative)

Dalmatian: viaspro

→ Esperanto: vespero

Piedmontese: vespr, vésper

Lombard: vèsper

Italian: vespro

Sicilian: vèspiru

desctree

Old French: vespre, vespree
Middle French: vespre
French: vêpre
Norman: vêpe
Walloon: vesprêye
→ English: vesper

⇒ Old French: vespres (oblique plural)

French: vêpres

→ Middle English: vespers, vespres
English: vespers

Old Occitan:

Catalan: vespre

Old Galician-Portuguese:

Portuguese: vésper

→ Spanish: véspero

q

→ Albanian: dhespër (or from Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos))

desctree

→ Old Irish: fescor
Irish: feascar
Manx: fastyr
Scottish Gaelic: feasgar

→ Welsh: gosber

PIE word
 *wek(ʷ)speros
From Proto-Italic *wesperos, from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros. Cognates include Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos), Old Church Slavonic вєчєръ (večerŭ) and Old Armenian գիշեր (gišer).


crepusculum

la-noun

crepusculum n (genitive crepusculī); second declension

crepusculī (genitive)
crepusculum (nominative singular)
crepuscula (nominative plural)
crepusculī (genitive singular)
crepusculōrum (genitive plural)
crepusculō (dative singular)
crepusculīs (dative plural)
crepusculum (accusative singular)
crepuscula (accusative plural)
crepusculō (ablative singular)
crepusculīs (ablative plural)
crepusculum (singular vocative)
crepuscula (plural vocative)

Catalan: crepuscle

desc

English: crepuscule, crepusculum, crepuscular

French: crépuscule

Galician: crepúsculo

Italian: crepuscolo

Occitan: crepuscul

Portuguese: crepúsculo

Romanian: crepuscul

Spanish: crepúsculo

[krɛˈpʊs̠kʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]

Diminutive of the neuter s-stem *crepus. See creper.


meridianus

la-adj

merīdiānus (feminine merīdiāna, neuter merīdiānum); first/second-declension adjective

merīdiānus (canonical)
merīdiāna (feminine)
merīdiānum (neuter)
merīdiānus (masculine nominative singular)
merīdiāna (feminine nominative singular)
merīdiānum (neuter nominative singular)
merīdiānī (masculine nominative plural)
merīdiānae (feminine nominative plural)
merīdiāna (neuter nominative plural)
merīdiānī (genitive masculine singular)
merīdiānae (feminine genitive singular)
merīdiānī (genitive neuter singular)
merīdiānōrum (genitive masculine plural)
merīdiānārum (feminine genitive plural)
merīdiānōrum (genitive neuter plural)
merīdiānō (dative masculine singular)
merīdiānae (dative feminine singular)
merīdiānō (dative neuter singular)
merīdiānīs (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
merīdiānum (accusative masculine singular)
merīdiānam (accusative feminine singular)
merīdiānum (accusative neuter singular)
merīdiānōs (accusative masculine plural)
merīdiānās (accusative feminine plural)
merīdiāna (accusative neuter plural)
merīdiānō (ablative masculine singular)
merīdiānā (ablative feminine singular)
merīdiānō (ablative neuter singular)
merīdiānīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
merīdiāne (masculine singular vocative)
merīdiāna (feminine singular vocative)
merīdiānum (neuter singular vocative)
merīdiānī (masculine plural vocative)
merīdiānae (feminine plural vocative)
merīdiāna (neuter plural vocative)

Catalan: meridià

English: meridian

French: méridien

Italian: meridiano

Portuguese: meridiano

Romanian: meridian

Spanish: meridiano


diluculum

la-noun

dīlūculum n (genitive dīlūculī); second declension

dīlūculum (canonical neuter)
dīlūculī (genitive)
dīlūculum (nominative singular)
dīlūcula (nominative plural)
dīlūculī (genitive singular)
dīlūculōrum (genitive plural)
dīlūculō (dative singular)
dīlūculīs (dative plural)
dīlūculum (accusative singular)
dīlūcula (accusative plural)
dīlūculō (ablative singular)
dīlūculīs (ablative plural)
dīlūculum (singular vocative)
dīlūcula (plural vocative)

[d̪iːˈɫ̪uːkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]

From diēs (“day”) + lūx (“light”) + -ulum.


vespera

vespera f (genitive vesperae); first declension

vesperae (genitive)
vespera (nominative singular)
vesperae (nominative plural)
vesperae (genitive singular)
vesperārum (genitive plural)
vesperae (dative singular)
vesperīs (dative plural)
vesperam (accusative singular)
vesperās (accusative plural)
vesperā (ablative singular)
vesperīs (ablative plural)
vespera (singular vocative)
vesperae (plural vocative)

Catalan: vespra

Old Galician-Portuguese: vespera

Galician: véspera, víspora

Portuguese: véspera

Old Spanish: viésperas, viespras

Spanish: víspera

→ Old High German: vespera

Middle High German: vesper

German: Vesper

Alemannic German: Vësper


auroreus

la-adj

aurōreus (feminine aurōrea, neuter aurōreum); first/second-declension adjective

aurōreus (canonical)
aurōrea (feminine)
aurōreum (neuter)
aurōreus (masculine nominative singular)
aurōrea (feminine nominative singular)
aurōreum (neuter nominative singular)
aurōreī (masculine nominative plural)
aurōreae (feminine nominative plural)
aurōrea (neuter nominative plural)
aurōreī (genitive masculine singular)
aurōreae (feminine genitive singular)
aurōreī (genitive neuter singular)
aurōreōrum (genitive masculine plural)
aurōreārum (feminine genitive plural)
aurōreōrum (genitive neuter plural)
aurōreō (dative masculine singular)
aurōreae (dative feminine singular)
aurōreō (dative neuter singular)
aurōreīs (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
aurōreum (accusative masculine singular)
aurōream (accusative feminine singular)
aurōreum (accusative neuter singular)
aurōreōs (accusative masculine plural)
aurōreās (accusative feminine plural)
aurōrea (accusative neuter plural)
aurōreō (ablative masculine singular)
aurōreā (ablative feminine singular)
aurōreō (ablative neuter singular)
aurōreīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
aurōree (masculine singular vocative)
aurōrea (feminine singular vocative)
aurōreum (neuter singular vocative)
aurōreī (masculine plural vocative)
aurōreae (feminine plural vocative)
aurōrea (neuter plural vocative)

English: aurorean


conticinium

la-noun

conticinium n (genitive conticiniī or conticinī); second declension

conticiniī (genitive)
conticinī (genitive)
conticinium (nominative singular)
conticinia (nominative plural)
conticiniī (genitive singular)
conticinī (genitive singular)
conticiniōrum (genitive plural)
conticiniō (dative singular)
conticiniīs (dative plural)
conticinium (accusative singular)
conticinia (accusative plural)
conticiniō (ablative singular)
conticiniīs (ablative plural)
conticinium (singular vocative)
conticinia (plural vocative)

[kɔn̪t̪ɪˈkɪniʊ̃ˑ]

From conticeō (“be silent”) or conticīscō (“become still”) + -ium. The second -n- is by analogy with the coordinate term gallicinium (“cockcrow, daybreak”).

The period of the late evening when animals cease to make noise.


gallicinium

gallicinium n (genitive galliciniī or gallicinī); second declension

galliciniī (genitive)
gallicinī (genitive)
gallicinium (nominative singular)
gallicinia (nominative plural)
galliciniī (genitive singular)
gallicinī (genitive singular)
galliciniōrum (genitive plural)
galliciniō (dative singular)
galliciniīs (dative plural)
gallicinium (accusative singular)
gallicinia (accusative plural)
galliciniō (ablative singular)
galliciniīs (ablative plural)
gallicinium (singular vocative)
gallicinia (plural vocative)

Italian: gallicinio

[ɡälːʲɪˈkɪniʊ̃ˑ]

gallus (“rooster”) + canō (“sing”) + -ium.

af

The period of the early morning when roosters begin to crow, cockcrow, daybreak.


pomeridianus

la-adj

pōmerīdiānus (feminine pōmerīdiāna, neuter pōmerīdiānum); first/second-declension adjective

pōmerīdiānus (canonical)
pōmerīdiāna (feminine)
pōmerīdiānum (neuter)
pōmerīdiānus (masculine nominative singular)
pōmerīdiāna (feminine nominative singular)
pōmerīdiānum (neuter nominative singular)
pōmerīdiānī (masculine nominative plural)
pōmerīdiānae (feminine nominative plural)
pōmerīdiāna (neuter nominative plural)
pōmerīdiānī (genitive masculine singular)
pōmerīdiānae (feminine genitive singular)
pōmerīdiānī (genitive neuter singular)
pōmerīdiānōrum (genitive masculine plural)
pōmerīdiānārum (feminine genitive plural)
pōmerīdiānōrum (genitive neuter plural)
pōmerīdiānō (dative masculine singular)
pōmerīdiānae (dative feminine singular)
pōmerīdiānō (dative neuter singular)
pōmerīdiānīs (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
pōmerīdiānum (accusative masculine singular)
pōmerīdiānam (accusative feminine singular)
pōmerīdiānum (accusative neuter singular)
pōmerīdiānōs (accusative masculine plural)
pōmerīdiānās (accusative feminine plural)
pōmerīdiāna (accusative neuter plural)
pōmerīdiānō (ablative masculine singular)
pōmerīdiānā (ablative feminine singular)
pōmerīdiānō (ablative neuter singular)
pōmerīdiānīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
pōmerīdiāne (masculine singular vocative)
pōmerīdiāna (feminine singular vocative)
pōmerīdiānum (neuter singular vocative)
pōmerīdiānī (masculine plural vocative)
pōmerīdiānae (feminine plural vocative)
pōmerīdiāna (neuter plural vocative)

English: postmeridian

From post- + merīdiānus or po- + merīdiānus.