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nox

See also: Nox, NOx, and ΝΟΧ

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Etymology 1

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Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts
Proto-Italic *nokts
Latin noxlbor.
English nox

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

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    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

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    From Latin nox (“night; darkness”), by analogy with lux from Latin lūx (“light; daylight, day”). Doublet of night.

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    nox (plural nox)

    1. (rare) millilux (unit of illuminance)

    Etymology 3

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    From N (“nitrogen”) +‎ ox (“oxide”).

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    nox (uncountable)

    2. Alternative form of NOx (nitrogen oxides)
    4. Abbreviation of nitrous oxide (“N₂O”).
      Synonym: nos
      Hypernyms: NOx, nox, nitrogen oxide < oxide < compound, substance, material
      Coordinate terms: nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO₂)
      Near-synonym: nos

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    Latin

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    Etymology 1

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    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.

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      nox f (genitive noctis); third declension

      1. night (period of time)
        Antonym: diēs
        media nox ― midnight
        Nox pars obscūra diēī est. ― Night is the dim part of the day.
      2. darkness
        Synonyms: creperum, obscūritās
      3. a dream or sleep
      4. (figuratively) confusion
      5. (figuratively) ignorance
      6. (figuratively) death
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      Third-declension noun (i-stem).

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

      Suppletive noctū is used temporally in Old Latin.

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      Etymology 2

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      (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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      nox (not comparable) (Old Latin)

      1. by night, at night
        Synonyms: nocte, noctū

      References

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      • “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, 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[1], 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
      • De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 416-7

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      Etymology

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      From Proto-Loloish *s-nökᴴ (Bradley). Cognate with Nuosu ꆖꂷ (nur ma, “soybean”), Burmese ပဲနောက် (pai:nauk, “mungbean”), Naxi nvq (“soybean”).

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      nox

      1. (Yao'an) bean, pea

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      nox

      1. alternative form of oxe
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