night

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (countable) The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
2. (countable) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
3. (countable) A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
4. (countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
5. (countable) A day, or at least a night.
6. (uncountable) Nightfall.
7. (uncountable) Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
8. (uncountable) A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
9. (colloquial, countable, uncountable) A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.

Intj

Ellipsis of good night.

Verb

To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.

Conceptes

nit

🌃

vespre

fosca

obscuritat

tarda

vetllada

capvespre

vesprada

crepuscle

Sinònims

evening

🌆

darkness

dark

nighttime

night-time

nightfall

nightly

at night

dusk

nocturnal

be dark

midnight

late evening

afternoon

day

early evening

etc.

eve

late night

nightime

middle of the night

even

evenfall

eventide

season

tonight

twilight

vesper

arvo

become dark

dinner time

early morning

late at night

sleep

😴

night time

gloam

night-fall

wee hours

nighttide

arvy

evetime

crepusculum

all

is falling

afternoons

blackness

chestnut

🌰

dawn

daytime

exhaust

Traduccions

nuit

🌃

noche

🌃

Nacht

🌃

notte

🌃

nacht

🌃

noite

🌃

νύχτα

nox

🌃

gece

🌃

Abend

🌆

soir

🌆

soirée

🌆

βράδυ

sera

🌆

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/naɪt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: nighte

Heretat de anglès antic: niht

Cognat amb escocès: nicht

Cognat amb frisó occidental: nacht

Cognat amb neerlandès: nacht

Cognat amb baix alemany: Nacht

Cognat amb alemany: Nacht

Cognat amb danès: nat

Cognat amb suec: -

Cognat amb noruec: natt

Cognat amb feroès: nátt

Cognat amb islandès: nótt

Cognat amb gòtic: 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃

Cognat amb grec: νύχτα

Cognat amb rus: ночь

Cognat amb sànscrit: नक्ति

Cognat amb llatí: nox

In summary

From Middle English nighte, night, nyght, niȝt, naht, from Old English niht, from Proto-West Germanic *naht (“night”), from Proto-Germanic *nahts (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”).
Cognate with Scots nicht, neicht (“night”), Yola neeght, nieght, nyeght (“night”), North Frisian naacht, Nacht, nåcht (“night”), Saterland Frisian Noacht (“night”), West Frisian nacht (“night”), Cimbrian, Dutch nacht (“night”), German, Low German Nacht (“night”), Luxembourgish Nuecht (“night”), Mòcheno nòcht (“night”), Vilamovian naocht (“night”), Yiddish נאַכט (nakht, “night”), Danish nat (“night”), Faroese nátt (“night”), Icelandic nátt, nótt (“night”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish natt (“night”), Scanian nøtt (“night”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (nahts, “night”), Greek νύχτα (nýchta, “night”), Russian ночь (nočʹ, “night”), Sanskrit नक्त (naktá), नक्ति (nákti, “night”), and Latin nox (“night”), whence English nox, a doublet.

Frases

No one seemed to have thought about it that night .

Fly by night and you waste little time .

And tomorrow night , they will come into my possession .

And I still claim I was right the night I proposed .

Despair is something that haunts us at night .

Perusing the woods in the night , she could only rely on her instincts .