nox

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

nox (plural nox)

1. (rare) millilux (unit of illuminance)

n (“nitrogen”) +‎ ox (“oxide”)

nox (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of NOx (nitrogen oxides)
2. Abbreviation of nitrous oxide.

   Coordinate term: nos

• XON

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.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /noks/, [nɔks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /noks/, [nɔks]

nox f (genitive noctis); third declension

1. night (period of time)

   media nox ― midnight

   Nox pars obscura diei est. ― Night is the dim part of the day.

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.26:

     Silentio noctis

     By the silence of night

2. darkness
3. a dream
4. (figuratively) confusion
5. (figuratively) ignorance
6. (figuratively) death

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• (darkness): creperum, obscūritās

• (antonym(s) of “night”): diēs

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

• “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

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

• IPA^(key): [no̠⁴⁴]

nox 

1. (Yao'an) bean, pea

nox

1. Alternative form of oxe