"nox" meaning in Latin

See nox in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

IPA: [ˈnɔks] [Classical-Latin], [ˈnɔks] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Head templates: {{la-adv|nox|-}} nox (not comparable), {{tlb|la|Old Latin}} (Old Latin)
  1. by night, at night Tags: Old-Latin, not-comparable Synonyms: nocte, noctū
    Sense id: en-nox-la-adv-UIpqxCGP Categories (other): Old Latin, Night Disambiguation of Old Latin: 51 49 0 0 0 0 0 Disambiguation of Night: 37 39 22 0 0 3 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: [ˈnɔks] [Classical-Latin], [ˈnɔks] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts Proto-Italic *nokts Latin nox Inherited from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Cognate with Ancient Greek νύξ (núx), Sanskrit नक्त् (nákt), Old English niht (whence English night), Proto-Slavic *noťь. Etymology templates: {{etymon|la|:inh|itc-pro:*nokts<id:night>|id=night|text=++|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts Proto-Italic *nokts Latin nox Inherited from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts., {{cog|grc|νύξ}} Ancient Greek νύξ (núx), {{cog|sa|नक्त्|tr=nákt}} Sanskrit नक्त् (nákt), {{cog|ang|niht}} Old English niht, {{cog|en|night}} English night, {{cog|sla-pro|*noťь}} Proto-Slavic *noťь Head templates: {{la-noun|nox/noct<3.I>|acc_pl=noctīs/noctēs|g=f}} nox f (genitive noctis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|nox/noct<3.I>|abl_sg=nocte/noctū#Noun|footnote=Suppletive noctū is used temporally in Old Latin.}} Forms: noctis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], 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], noctū [ablative, singular], noctibus [ablative, plural], nox [singular, vocative], noctēs [plural, vocative]
  1. night (period of time) Tags: declension-3, feminine
    Sense id: en-nox-la-noun-H0jIgyWe Categories (other): Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with etymology trees, Latin entries with etymology texts, Latin entries with etymology trees, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin feminine nouns in the third declension, Latin links with manual fragments, Old Latin, Night, Times of day Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 5 8 18 6 22 37 1 1 1 1 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 8 13 7 24 40 0 0 0 0 0 Disambiguation of Pages with etymology trees: 13 76 2 2 2 2 2 Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymology texts: 87 3 2 3 3 2 Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymology trees: 87 3 2 3 3 2 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 39 57 1 1 1 2 0 Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the third declension: 28 15 11 15 15 15 Disambiguation of Latin links with manual fragments: 42 12 11 12 12 11 Disambiguation of Old Latin: 51 49 0 0 0 0 0 Disambiguation of Night: 37 39 22 0 0 3 0 Disambiguation of Times of day: 32 60 3 1 2 2 0
  2. darkness Tags: declension-3, feminine Synonyms: creperum, obscūritās
    Sense id: en-nox-la-noun-FCcr02HJ Categories (other): Night Disambiguation of Night: 37 39 22 0 0 3 0
  3. a dream or sleep Tags: declension-3, feminine
    Sense id: en-nox-la-noun-iBn7qyjq
  4. (figuratively) confusion Tags: declension-3, feminine, figuratively
    Sense id: en-nox-la-noun-Mshwkj~O
  5. (figuratively) ignorance Tags: declension-3, feminine, figuratively
    Sense id: en-nox-la-noun-9d~FkAod
  6. (figuratively) death Tags: declension-3, feminine, figuratively
    Sense id: en-nox-la-noun-UsjgKYfM
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1 Derived forms: dē nocte, iūs prīmae noctis, multā nocte, noctescō, nocticolor, noctifer, noctilūca, noctipuga, noctivagus, Nox, pernoctō Related terms: noctū, noctua, noctuābundus, noctuīnus, noctulūcus, nocturnus, noctuvigilus, aurora, conticinium, dīlūculum, gallicinium, intempesta nox, intempestum, mātūtīnum, media nox, vesper

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dē nocte"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "iūs prīmae noctis"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "multā nocte"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "noctescō"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "nocticolor"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "noctifer"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "noctilūca"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "noctipuga"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "noctivagus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Nox"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "pernoctō"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "nox"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "nokto"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": ":inh",
        "3": "itc-pro:*nokts<id:night>",
        "id": "night",
        "text": "++",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *nókʷts\nProto-Italic *nokts\nLatin nox\nInherited from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "νύξ"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek νύξ (núx)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "नक्त्",
        "tr": "nákt"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit नक्त् (nákt)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "niht"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English niht",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "night"
      },
      "expansion": "English night",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sla-pro",
        "2": "*noťь"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Slavic *noťь",
      "name": "cog"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *nókʷts\nProto-Italic *nokts\nLatin nox\nInherited from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Cognate with Ancient Greek νύξ (núx), Sanskrit नक्त् (nákt), Old English niht (whence English night), Proto-Slavic *noťь.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "noctis",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nox",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "noctēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nocte",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctū",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nox",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nox/noct<3.I>",
        "acc_pl": "noctīs/noctēs",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "nox f (genitive noctis); third declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nox/noct<3.I>",
        "abl_sg": "nocte/noctū#Noun",
        "footnote": "Suppletive noctū is used temporally in Old Latin."
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "noctū"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "noctua"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "noctuābundus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "noctuīnus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "noctulūcus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "nocturnus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "noctuvigilus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "aurora"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "conticinium"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dīlūculum"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "gallicinium"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "intempesta nox"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "intempestum"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "mātūtīnum"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "media nox"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "vesper"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "diēs"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "5 8 18 6 22 37 1 1 1 1 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 8 13 7 24 40 0 0 0 0 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "13 76 2 2 2 2 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with etymology trees",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 3 2 3 3 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with etymology texts",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "87 3 2 3 3 2",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "39 57 1 1 1 2 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 15 11 15 15 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "42 12 11 12 12 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "51 49 0 0 0 0 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old Latin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "37 39 22 0 0 3 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Night",
          "orig": "la:Night",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 60 3 1 2 2 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Times of day",
          "orig": "la:Times of day",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              9
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              3,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "english": "midnight",
          "text": "media nox",
          "translation": "midnight",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              3
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              5
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Night is the dim part of the day.",
          "text": "Nox pars obscūra diēī est.",
          "translation": "Night is the dim part of the day.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "By the silence of night",
          "ref": "c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.26",
          "text": "Silentio noctis",
          "translation": "By the silence of night",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "night (period of time)"
      ],
      "id": "en-nox-la-noun-H0jIgyWe",
      "links": [
        [
          "night",
          "night"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "37 39 22 0 0 3 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Night",
          "orig": "la:Night",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "darkness"
      ],
      "id": "en-nox-la-noun-FCcr02HJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "darkness",
          "darkness"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "creperum"
        },
        {
          "word": "obscūritās"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.530",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a dream or sleep"
      ],
      "id": "en-nox-la-noun-iBn7qyjq",
      "links": [
        [
          "dream",
          "dream"
        ],
        [
          "sleep",
          "sleep#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "confusion"
      ],
      "id": "en-nox-la-noun-Mshwkj~O",
      "links": [
        [
          "confusion",
          "confusion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) confusion"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "feminine",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.472",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ignorance"
      ],
      "id": "en-nox-la-noun-9d~FkAod",
      "links": [
        [
          "ignorance",
          "ignorance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) ignorance"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "feminine",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "death"
      ],
      "id": "en-nox-la-noun-UsjgKYfM",
      "links": [
        [
          "death",
          "death"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) death"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "feminine",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈnɔks]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈnɔks]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nox"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nox",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "nox (not comparable)",
      "name": "la-adv"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "Old Latin"
      },
      "expansion": "(Old Latin)",
      "name": "tlb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "51 49 0 0 0 0 0",
          "kind": "other",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "37 39 22 0 0 3 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Night",
          "orig": "la:Night",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "5th century BC, The Twelve Tables, in c. 431 CE, Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.4",
          "text": "Non esse ab re puto hoc in loco id quoque ammonere, quod decemviri in duodecim tabulis inusitatissime nox pro noctu dixerunt. Verba haec sunt: si nox furtum factum sit. si im occisit iure caesus esto: […]",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "roman": "si luci, si nox, si mox, si jam data sit frux",
          "text": "239 BCE – 169 BCE, Ennius, Annales, in c. 500 CE, Priscian, Institutiones Grammaticae p724",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "c. 209 BCE, Plautus, Asinaria 3.3.7",
          "text": "Quo nunc abis? Quin tu hic manes? — Nox, si voles, manebo.",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "roman": "hinc media remis Palinurum pervenio nox",
          "text": "c. 165 BCE – 103 BCE, Gaius Lucilius, Saturae 3, in c. 4th-5th century, Servius, In Vergilii Aeneidem Commentarii 10.244",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "by night, at night"
      ],
      "id": "en-nox-la-adv-UIpqxCGP",
      "links": [
        [
          "by night",
          "by night"
        ],
        [
          "at night",
          "at night"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "nocte"
        },
        {
          "word": "noctū"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Old-Latin",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈnɔks]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈnɔks]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nox"
}
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  "categories": [
    "Latin 1-syllable words",
    "Latin adverbs",
    "Latin entries with etymology texts",
    "Latin entries with etymology trees",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin feminine nouns",
    "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin links with manual fragments",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *negʷ-",
    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Latin third declension nouns",
    "Latin uncomparable adverbs",
    "Old Latin",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Pages with etymology trees",
    "la:Night",
    "la:Times of day"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "dē nocte"
    },
    {
      "word": "iūs prīmae noctis"
    },
    {
      "word": "multā nocte"
    },
    {
      "word": "noctescō"
    },
    {
      "word": "nocticolor"
    },
    {
      "word": "noctifer"
    },
    {
      "word": "noctilūca"
    },
    {
      "word": "noctipuga"
    },
    {
      "word": "noctivagus"
    },
    {
      "word": "Nox"
    },
    {
      "word": "pernoctō"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "nox"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "nokto"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
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      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": ":inh",
        "3": "itc-pro:*nokts<id:night>",
        "id": "night",
        "text": "++",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *nókʷts\nProto-Italic *nokts\nLatin nox\nInherited from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "νύξ"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek νύξ (núx)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "नक्त्",
        "tr": "nákt"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit नक्त् (nákt)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "niht"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English niht",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "night"
      },
      "expansion": "English night",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sla-pro",
        "2": "*noťь"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Slavic *noťь",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *nókʷts\nProto-Italic *nokts\nLatin nox\nInherited from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Cognate with Ancient Greek νύξ (núx), Sanskrit नक्त् (nákt), Old English niht (whence English night), Proto-Slavic *noťь.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "noctis",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nox",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nocte",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctū",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nox",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noctēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nox/noct<3.I>",
        "acc_pl": "noctīs/noctēs",
        "g": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "nox f (genitive noctis); third declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nox/noct<3.I>",
        "abl_sg": "nocte/noctū#Noun",
        "footnote": "Suppletive noctū is used temporally in Old Latin."
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "noctū"
    },
    {
      "word": "noctua"
    },
    {
      "word": "noctuābundus"
    },
    {
      "word": "noctuīnus"
    },
    {
      "word": "noctulūcus"
    },
    {
      "word": "nocturnus"
    },
    {
      "word": "noctuvigilus"
    },
    {
      "word": "aurora"
    },
    {
      "word": "conticinium"
    },
    {
      "word": "dīlūculum"
    },
    {
      "word": "gallicinium"
    },
    {
      "word": "intempesta nox"
    },
    {
      "word": "intempestum"
    },
    {
      "word": "mātūtīnum"
    },
    {
      "word": "media nox"
    },
    {
      "word": "vesper"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "diēs"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations",
        "Latin terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              6,
              9
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              3,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "english": "midnight",
          "text": "media nox",
          "translation": "midnight",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              3
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              5
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Night is the dim part of the day.",
          "text": "Nox pars obscūra diēī est.",
          "translation": "Night is the dim part of the day.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "By the silence of night",
          "ref": "c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.26",
          "text": "Silentio noctis",
          "translation": "By the silence of night",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "night (period of time)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "night",
          "night"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "darkness"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "darkness",
          "darkness"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "creperum"
        },
        {
          "word": "obscūritās"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.530",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a dream or sleep"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dream",
          "dream"
        ],
        [
          "sleep",
          "sleep#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "confusion"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "confusion",
          "confusion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) confusion"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "feminine",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.472",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "ignorance"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ignorance",
          "ignorance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) ignorance"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "feminine",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "death"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "death",
          "death"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) death"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "feminine",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈnɔks]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈnɔks]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nox"
}

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    "Latin 1-syllable words",
    "Latin adverbs",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Latin uncomparable adverbs",
    "Old Latin",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "la:Night",
    "la:Times of day"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
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      "args": {
        "1": "nox",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "nox (not comparable)",
      "name": "la-adv"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "Old Latin"
      },
      "expansion": "(Old Latin)",
      "name": "tlb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations",
        "Requests for translations of Latin quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "5th century BC, The Twelve Tables, in c. 431 CE, Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.4",
          "text": "Non esse ab re puto hoc in loco id quoque ammonere, quod decemviri in duodecim tabulis inusitatissime nox pro noctu dixerunt. Verba haec sunt: si nox furtum factum sit. si im occisit iure caesus esto: […]",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "roman": "si luci, si nox, si mox, si jam data sit frux",
          "text": "239 BCE – 169 BCE, Ennius, Annales, in c. 500 CE, Priscian, Institutiones Grammaticae p724",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "c. 209 BCE, Plautus, Asinaria 3.3.7",
          "text": "Quo nunc abis? Quin tu hic manes? — Nox, si voles, manebo.",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "roman": "hinc media remis Palinurum pervenio nox",
          "text": "c. 165 BCE – 103 BCE, Gaius Lucilius, Saturae 3, in c. 4th-5th century, Servius, In Vergilii Aeneidem Commentarii 10.244",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "by night, at night"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "by night",
          "by night"
        ],
        [
          "at night",
          "at night"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "nocte"
        },
        {
          "word": "noctū"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Old-Latin",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈnɔks]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈnɔks]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nox"
}

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