Noun: noctule
| Singular | noctule |
| Plural | noctules |
Sample Sentences
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We were all still growing used to the night-time, the blue-veined hours of morning that lay only lightly, the white spiders and noctule bats. [2019, Julia Armfield, “The Great Awake”, in Salt Slow, Picador, page 25:]
Nouns inflected like noctule
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French noctule, a latinised scientific borrowing of the Italian nottola (refers to various birds or bats), inherited from Late Latin noctula, diminutive of Classical Latin noctua (“night-owl”), ultimately from Latin nox (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Per the OED, first attested in English in 1771. See: French Nouns '
noctule', Italian Nouns '
nottola', Latin Nouns '
nox'.
Verbs referencing "noctule"
Catalan Nouns
nòctul.