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Nox

Nox

See also: nox and NOx

English

Proper noun

Nox

  1. (Roman mythology) The Roman goddess of night.

Latin

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɔks/

Proper noun

Nox f (genitive Noctis); third declension

  1. Night
  2. The goddess Nox

nox

nox

See also: Nox and NOx

English

Noun

nox (plural nox)

  1. (rare) millilux (unit of illuminance)

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Cognates include Ancient Greek νύξ (núx), Sanskrit नक्ति (nákti), Old English niht (English night) and Proto-Slavic *noťь.

Noun

nox f (genitive noctis); third declension

  1. night (period of time)
    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

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Case Singular Plural
nominative nox noctēs
genitive noctis noctium
dative noctī noctibus
accusative noctem noctēs
ablative nocte noctibus
vocative nox noctēs

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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, 1883–1887)
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “nox”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray