night
Significado
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- The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
- 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.
- A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
- An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
- A day, or at least a night.
- Nightfall.
- Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
- A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
- (colloquial) A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/naɪt/
Etimología
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”), West Frisian nacht (“night”), Dutch nacht (“night”), Low German Nacht (“night”), German Nacht (“night”), Danish nat (“night”), Swedish and Norwegian natt (“night”), Faroese nátt (“night”), Icelandic nótt (“night”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (nahts, “night”), Greek νύχτα (nýchta, “night”), Russian ночь (nočʹ, “night”), Sanskrit नक्ति (nákti, “night”), and Latin nox (“night”), whence English nox, a doublet.
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