nocturnus

From nox (“night”, oblique stem: noct-) +‎ -urnus (suffix forming adjectives), on the analogy of diurnus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /nokˈtur.nus/, [nɔkˈt̪ʊrnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nokˈtur.nus/, [nokˈt̪urnus]

nocturnus (feminine nocturna, neuter nocturnum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or belonging to the night, nocturnal

First/second-declension adjective.

• nocturna (Medieval Latin)
• nocturnālis (Late Latin)

• Italian: notturno
  • → English: notturno
• Mirandese: noturno
• Piedmontese: noturn
• Sardinian: noturnu
• Spanish: *nochorno
  • ⇒ *nochorniego, nocharniego
• → Catalan: nocturn
• → Old High German: nuohturn
  • Middle High German: nüehtern, nüchtern, nüchtarn, nüchter
    • German: nüchtern
    • Hunsrik: nichter
• → Old French: notorne
• → French: nocturne (learned)
  • → English: nocturne
  • → Romanian: nocturn
• → Friulian: noturni
• → Galician: nocturno (learned)
• → Portuguese: noturno (learned)
• → Spanish: nocturno (learned)

• “nocturnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nocturnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nocturnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum