twilight

Significado (Inglês)

1. The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
2. The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
3. Any faint light through which something is seen.
4. The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
5. An in-between or fading condition through which something is perceived.

dusk

evening

faint light

time for disasters

early dawn

end-stage

late afternoon

half-light of early morning

after sunset

western evening sky

poor light

mirky

owl-light

slight darkness

the beginning of night

blind man’s holiday

Freqüência

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt/

PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English twilight, twyelyghte, equivalent to twi- (“double, half-”) + light, literally ‘second light, half-light’. Cognate to Scots twa licht, twylicht, twielicht (“twilight”), Low German twilecht, twelecht (“twilight”), Dutch tweelicht (“twilight, dusk”), German Zwielicht (“twilight, dusk”). Compare Old English twēone lēoht (“twilight”).