nox

Noun

nox (plural nox)

1. (rare) millilux (unit of illuminance)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /noks/, [nɔks]

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

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)
• nox in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (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