nox – Latin noun declension

Latin noun forms of nox

Noun: nox
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine Declension: Third

Nominative

Singularnox
Pluralnoctēs

Genitive

Singularnoctis
Pluralnoctium

Dative

Singularnoctī
Pluralnoctibus

Accusative

Singularnoctem
Pluralnoctēs; noctīs

Ablative

Singularnocte; noctū
Pluralnoctibus

Vocative

Singularnox
Pluralnoctēs

Sample Sentences

  • media nox (midnight)
  • Nox pars obscūra diēī est. (Night is the dim part of the day.)
  • Silentio noctis (By the silence of night) [c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico VII.26]
  • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.530
  • 8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 6.472

Nouns inflected like nox

nox,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts
3. Proto-Italic *nok⁽ʷ⁾ts
4. Latin nox
5. Inherited from Proto-Italic *nok⁽ʷ⁾ts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Cognate with Ancient Greek νύξ (núx), Sanskrit नक्त् (nákt), Old English niht (whence English night), Proto-Slavic *noťь. See: Ancient Greek Nouns 'νύξ', Old English Nouns 'niht', English Nouns 'night'.

Verbs referencing "nox"

English Nouns night, English Nouns nocturnal, Old English Nouns niht, Ancient Greek Nouns νύξ, English Nouns noctule, Galician Nouns nuite, Old Portuguese Nouns noute, Russian Nouns ноктюрн.

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