Noun: minuit
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | minuit |
| Plural m | minuits |
Sample Sentences
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La nouvelle journée commence à minuit. (The new day begins at midnight.)
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Il est déjà minuit? (Is it midnight already?)
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Pendant les week-ends, je me couche à minuit. (On the weekends, I go to bed by midnight.)
Nouns inflected like minuit
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French mynuyt, from Old French mie nuit, from mie, feminine singular of mi (“half, half way”) + nuit (“night”). Equivalent to mi- + nuit. Compare Occitan mièjanuèch, mièjanuèit, Catalan mitjanit, Portuguese meia-noite, Spanish medianoche, Italian mezzanotte, Romanian miazănoapte. See: Catalan Nouns '
mitjanit', Portuguese Nouns '
meia-noite', Spanish Nouns '
medianoche', Italian Nouns '
mezzanotte', Romanian Nouns '
miazănoapte'.
Verbs referencing "minuit"
Spanish Nouns
medianoche.
Translations