midnight

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

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

Adj

Utterly dark or black.

Concepts

minuit

min.

minuit

min.

Minuit

en pleine nuit

nuit

🌃

nuit avancée

midi

🕛

Synonymes

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

Traductions

Mitternacht

middernacht

medianoche

gece yarısı

media noche

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈmɪdnʌɪt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: midnight

Hérité de ancien anglais: midniht

Appartenant à saterlandais: Midnoacht

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: mittinaht

Appartenant à danois: midnat

Appartenant à suédois: midnatt

Appartenant à islandais: miðnætti

Appartenant à saterlandais: Middernoacht

Appartenant à néerlandais: middernacht

Appartenant à allemand: Mitternacht

In summary

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”).

Phrases

It was now near midnight .

C'était maintenant près de minuit.