night
night
subs.
P. and V. νύξ, ἡ, V. εὐφρόνη, ἡ.
Darkness: P. and V. σκότος, ὁ, or τό ; see darkness.
Of night, adj.: Ar. and V. νύκτερος, V. ὀρφναῖος, Ar. and P. νυκτερῐνός, Ar. νυκτερήσιος.
At dead of night: see under dead.
By night: P. and V. νύκτωρ.
Whom must I meet? By night or by day? V. τῷ συγγένωμαι; νύχιος ἢ καθʼ ἡμέραν; (Eur. El. 603).
subs.
P. and V. νύξ, ἡ, V. εὐφρόνη, ἡ.
Darkness: P. and V. σκότος, ὁ, or τό ; see darkness.
Of night, adj.: Ar. and V. νύκτερος, V. ὀρφναῖος, Ar. and P. νυκτερῐνός, Ar. νυκτερήσιος.
At dead of night: see under dead.
By night: P. and V. νύκτωρ.
Whom must I meet? By night or by day? V. τῷ συγγένωμαι; νύχιος ἢ καθʼ ἡμέραν; (Eur. El. 603).
NIGHT
nox (the proper word); tenebrae (darkness; also figuratively of the mind). A dark night nox obscura nox caliginosa nox obducta or caeca: a long short night nox longa contractor: the shortest night nox solstitialis (opposed to nox brumalis): a space of two three nights binoctium trinoctium: by night in the night nocte; noctu; nocturno tempore: toward the approach of night sub noctem; prima nocte; primo vespere; nocte appetente; primis se intendentibus tenebris: in the middle of the night media nocte: late at night concubia nocte: still in the night de nocte: still in the middle of the night de media nocte: while it is yet still night de multa nocte (all three with verbs of motion; e.g. proficisci): until late at night ad multam noctem (☞ in serum noctis is post-classical): night is coming on nox appetit; tenebrae oboriuntur: night is close at hand nox ingruit or imminet: night overtakes one nox opprimit aliquem; nox alicui supervenit: to stay up the whole night noctem pervigilare; (for the purpose of labor or study) lucubrare: to have a good night bene quiescere: to have a bad night noctem insomnem agere: good night! perhaps molliter cubes! (after Ov. Her. 7 62) or salve! salvere te jubeo! vale! valere te jubeo! (the usual salutation at meeting and parting): to wish good night to anyone aliquem salvere or valere jubeo.
nox (the proper word); tenebrae (darkness; also figuratively of the mind). A dark night nox obscura nox caliginosa nox obducta or caeca: a long short night nox longa contractor: the shortest night nox solstitialis (opposed to nox brumalis): a space of two three nights binoctium trinoctium: by night in the night nocte; noctu; nocturno tempore: toward the approach of night sub noctem; prima nocte; primo vespere; nocte appetente; primis se intendentibus tenebris: in the middle of the night media nocte: late at night concubia nocte: still in the night de nocte: still in the middle of the night de media nocte: while it is yet still night de multa nocte (all three with verbs of motion; e.g. proficisci): until late at night ad multam noctem (☞ in serum noctis is post-classical): night is coming on nox appetit; tenebrae oboriuntur: night is close at hand nox ingruit or imminet: night overtakes one nox opprimit aliquem; nox alicui supervenit: to stay up the whole night noctem pervigilare; (for the purpose of labor or study) lucubrare: to have a good night bene quiescere: to have a bad night noctem insomnem agere: good night! perhaps molliter cubes! (after Ov. Her. 7 62) or salve! salvere te jubeo! vale! valere te jubeo! (the usual salutation at meeting and parting): to wish good night to anyone aliquem salvere or valere jubeo.
night: nox, noctis, f. (with heteroclite abl. noctu, used adverb., by night: Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44: connected with interdiu, by day, Caes. B. G. 1, 8): a cloudless n., n. serena, Cic. Rep. 1, 15: a starlight n., n. illustris, Plin. 9, 16, 23: at mid-n., mediâ n., Cic. Att. 4, 3: by n., de nocte, id. Mur. 33, 69: the depth of the n., intempesta n., Sall. Cat. 32: in the early part of the n., concubiâ n., Cic. Div. 1, 27, 57: Tac.: day and n. (i. e. incessantly), noctes et dies, Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 260; noctesque diesque (poet.), Enn. in Cic. Sen. 1. (For late in the n., v. LATE , adj., II.) Adj. nocturnus, belonging to the night; in the n.: to undertake toil by n. and by day, labores diurnos nocturnosque suscipere, Cic. Sen. 23, 82: poet. = de nocte: the wolf prowls by n., lupus nocturnus obambulat, Virg. G. 3, 538. Also, noctuabundus (rare): cf. Cic. Att. 12, 1, noctuabundus ad me venit tabellarius, came to me by n. Phr.: two, three n.s (together), bĭnoctium, trĭnoctium (both extr. rare): Tac. A. 3, 71 (plusquam binoctium abesse): Val. Max. 2, 4, 5 (trinoctio = tribus continuis noctibus, on three successive n.s): at the beginning of n., primis tenebris, Liv. 31, 24, med.: to lie awake (sit up) all n., pervigilare, Mart. 9, 68, 8 (also with noctem: orat, ut eam noctem pervigilet, Cic. R. Am. 35, 98): to work or study by n. (by a lamp), lucubrare, Liv.: Cic. (v. TO LUCUBRATE , LUCUBRATION ): to pass the n. somewhere, pernoctare alicubi, Cic. Clu. 13, 37: Varr.: lasting all n., pernox: esp. in phr., luna pernox erat, it was a moonlight n., Liv. 5, 28: but also of other things: gambling kept up all n., alea pernox, Juv. 8, 10: to have a good n., bene quiescere, Plin. Ep. 3, 16, 4: as an exclam., good n.! *bene valeas et quiescas. (For night in fig. sense, use tenebrae, caligo: v. GLOOM , DARKNESS .)
νύξ
νύξ, νυκτός, ἡ, night
night
σκοτομήνη
a moonless night
ἐγκοιμήτωρ
night
ἐννύχιος
in the night, by night, nightly
νύξ, νυκτός, ἡ, night
appearing fewer than 50 times
εὐφρόναnight
σκοτομήνη
a moonless night
ἐγκοιμήτωρ
night
ἐννύχιος
in the night, by night, nightly
nox
night
nocturnus
of night, by night, nocturnal
in the night, at night, by night
noctuabundus
in the night-time, by night
pernox
through the night, all night
night
nocturnus
of night, by night, nocturnal
appearing fewer than 50 times
noctuin the night, at night, by night
noctuabundus
in the night-time, by night
pernox
through the night, all night