midnight

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
2. Twelve o'clock at night exactly.
3. Synonym of boxcars (“a pair of sixes”)

Adj

Utterly dark or black.

Συνώνυμα

dead of night

depth of night

noon

🕛

night

🌃

middle of the night

twelve o’clock

late night

midday

nighttime

nocturnal

noonday

noone

noontide

noontime

midnight blue

black of night

night time

thick darkness

noon-time

12 am

12:00 a.m.

minuit

at night

Nighthaw

bedtime

darkness

evening

🌆

half

high noon

mi

Με παύλα ως

mid‧night

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈmɪdnʌɪt/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

From Middle English midnight, from Old English midniht, from Proto-Germanic *midjanahts (“midnight”), equivalent to mid- + night. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Midnoacht (“midnight”), Old High German mittinaht (“midnight”), Danish midnat (“midnight”), Swedish midnatt (“midnight”), Icelandic miðnætti (“midnight”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Middernoacht (“midnight”), Dutch middernacht (“midnight”), German Mitternacht (“midnight”).