nokto
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin nox, from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnokto/
Audio 1: (file) Audio 2: (file) Audio 3: (file) - Rhymes: -okto
- Syllabification: nok‧to
Noun
nokto (accusative singular nokton, plural noktoj, accusative plural noktojn)
- night
- Antonym: tago
- 1927, L. L. Zamenhof, transl., La Sankta Biblio [The Holy Bible][1] (hardcover), London; Edinburgh: British and Foreign Bible Society; Scottish Bible Society, →ISBN, page 5:
- Kaj Dio nomis la lumon Tago, kaj la mallumon Li nomis Nokto.
- And God called the light Day, and He called the darkness Night.
Derived terms
- ĉiunokte (“every night, nightly”)
- nokta (“related to night”)
- noktblinda (“night-blind”)
- noktblindeco (“night blindness”)
- nokte (“at night”)
- nokti (“to be night”)
- noktiĝo (“nightfall”)
- noktmezo (“midnight”)
- noktoĉemizo (“nightshirt”)
- noktoklubo (“nightclub”)
- noktpapilio
- noktvestaĵo (“night clothes”)
- tranokti (“to spend the night”)
- tutnokte (“all night long”)
Ido
Etymology
Etymology tree
Borrowed from Esperanto nokto, borrowed from Latin nox, from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. By surface analysis, noktar (“to be night”) + -o (noun).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnokto/
Noun
nokto (plural nokti)