pernoctation

Meaning

1. The action of abiding through the night at a location; (countable) an instance of this; an overnight stay.
2. The action of walking about at night, especially as a vigil or watch; (countable) an instance of this.
3. (obsolete) A religious watch kept during normal sleeping hours, during which prayers or other ceremonies are performed; a vigil.

Synonyms

spending the night awake

vigil

night-waking

vigilance during the night

Translations

Übernachtung

pernoctación

Hyphenated as

per‧noct‧a‧tion

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌpɜːnɒkˈteɪʃn̩/

Etymology

PIE word
*nókʷts
Learned borrowing from Late Latin pernoctātiō (“act of spending of the night (doing something, particularly praying)”) + English -ion (suffix forming nouns indicating an action or process, or the result of an action or process). Pernoctātiō is derived from Latin pernoctātus (“having spent the night”) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs); pernoctātus is the perfect passive participle of pernoctō (“to spend the night”), from per- (prefix with the sense of completion or entirety forming verbs) + nox (“night; darkness”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night; evening (?)”), possibly from *negʷ- (“bare, naked”) in the sense of becoming bare of sunlight).