adverb
noctū
noctū (not comparable)
Classical[ˈnɔk.tuː]Ecclesiastical[ˈnɔk.tu]
Meaning
- not comparableby night, at night
Noctuque et diu ut viro subdola sis,
opsecro memento. (please add an English translation of this quotation)c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina 4.4.6non numquam interdiu, saepius noctu si perrumpere possent conati, operis munitione et militum concursu et telis repulsi, hoc conatu destiterunt.
c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 1.8
noctu, v. nox.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
noctū adv.
old abl. of * noctus, for nox, in the night, at night, by night , T.; opp. interdiu, Cs., C., S., H., Iu.
Origins
From Proto-Italic *noktowe, from Proto-Indo-European *nokʷt-ew (“by night”). Cognate with Proto-Tocharian *nekʷtu- (“by night”) and Sanskrit अक्तु (aktú, “by night”). The noun form is either from *noctūd/*noktou, ablative and locative singular of *noktus or rebracketed from the adverb; compare Sanskrit अक्तु (aktú, “night”) and अक्तु (aktú, “by night”).