# nox
## English
### Etymology 1

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

### Pronunciation

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#### Noun

nox (plural nox)
* (rare) millilux (unit of illuminance)

### Etymology 2

From n (“nitrogen”) +‎ ox (“oxide”).

#### Noun

nox (uncountable)
* Alternative form of NOx (nitrogen oxides)
* Abbreviation of nitrous oxide.
    Coordinate term: nos

### Anagrams

* XON

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Cognate with Ancient Greek νύξ (núx), Sanskrit नक्ति (nákti), Old English niht (whence English night), Proto-Slavic *noťь.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈnoks/, [ˈnɔks̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈnoks/, [ˈnɔks]

### Noun

nox f (genitive noctis); third declension
* night (period of time)
    media nox ― midnight
    Nox pars obscūra diēī est. ― Night is the dim part of the day.
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.26:Silentio noctisBy the silence of night
* darkness
* a dream
* (figuratively) confusion
* (figuratively) ignorance
* (figuratively) death

#### Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

#### Synonyms

* (darkness): creperum, obscūritās

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “night”): diēs

#### Hyponyms

* crepusculum; vesper; conticinium; media nox, intempesta nox, intempestum; gallicinium; matutinum, aurora; diluculum

#### Derived terms

* dē nocte
* iūs prīmae noctis
* multā nocte
* noctescō
* nocticolor
* noctifer
* noctilūca
* noctipuga
* noctivagus
* noctū
* noctua
* noctuābundus
* noctuīnus
* noctulūcus
* nocturnus
* noctuvigilus
* Nox
* pernoctō

#### Descendants

* Balkan-Romance:
** Aromanian: noapti, noapte, nopti
** Istro-Romanian: nopte
** Megleno-Romanian: noapti
** Romanian: noapte
* Dalmatian:
** nuot, nuat
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: notte
** Italian: notte
** Neapolitan: notte
** Sicilian: notti
* North Italian:
** Gallo-Italic:
*** Emilian: nôt, nòcc
*** Old Lombard: nog
**** Lombard: neucc, nòcc, nò
*** Piedmontese: nog
**** Piedmontese: neuit (western), neucc (eastern)
** Friulian: gnot
** Istriot: nuoto, noto
** Romansch: not, notg
** Venetan: note
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: nuet, nait, noit, not, net, nit, gnuet
** Old French: noit, nuit
*** Bourguignon: neut
*** Champenois: nutie, neut
*** Franc-Comtois: neût
*** Middle French: nuyt
**** French: nuit
***** Haitian Creole: nwit
*** Norman: gniaette, gniet, niet, nyit
*** Walloon: nute
* Occitano-Romance:
** Old Catalan: nuyt, nit
*** Catalan: nit
** Occitan:
    Auvergnat: neut, nueit
    Languedocien: nuèit, nèit, nuèch, nuòch, nhuèch, nhòch, nèch
    Limousin: nuech, nueit
    Provençal: nuech, nhuech
    Vivaro-Alpine: nuech, nhuech, neit
** Gascon: nuèit, nueit, nèit, net, nèi, nuit
** Aragonese: nueit, nuet
    Ribagorçan: nit
* Ibero-Romance:
** Mozarabic: نخت (nuxti)
** Old Leonese:
*** Asturian: nueche, nuechi, nueite (western), nuoche
*** Extremaduran: nochi
*** Leonese: nueite, nuoite, nueiche
*** Mirandese: nuite
** Old Galician-Portuguese: noite, noute
*** Fala: noiti
*** Galician: noite, note, noute, nuite
*** Portuguese: noite, noute (dated) (see there for further descendants)
** Old Spanish: noche
*** Ladino: noche
*** Spanish: noche
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: notti (Campidanese), notte (Logudorese, Nuorese)
* Borrowings:
** → English: nox
** → Esperanto: nokto

### 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 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, 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

## Lolopo
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [no̠⁴⁴]

### Noun

nox
* (Yao'an) bean, pea

## Middle English
### Noun

nox
* Alternative form of oxe