noche

Ladino

Alternative forms

  • noce (Romania), noče (Yugoslavia), notche (France)

Etymology

  • Inherited from Old Spanish noche, from Latin nox, from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈnɔtʃɛ/

    Noun

    noche f (Hebrew spelling נוג׳י)[1]

    1. night
      Antonym: día
      • 2019, Silvyo OVADYA, “Hanukah Alegre”, in Şalom Gazetesi[2]:
        Alhad la noche vamos a asender la primera kandela de muestras Hanukiyas.
        Sunday night we're going to light the first candle on our Hanukiyas.

    References

    1. ^ noche”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim

    Old French

    Alternative forms

    • noiche

    Noun

    noche oblique singularf (oblique plural noches, nominative singular noche, nominative plural noches)

    1. buckle; clasp

    References

    • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (noche)

    Old Spanish

    Etymology

  • Inherited from Latin nox, from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈnotʃe/

    Noun

    noche f (plural noches)

    1. night

    Descendants

    • Ladino: noche
    • Spanish: noche

    Spanish

    Etymology

  • Inherited from Old Spanish noche, from Latin nox, from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈnot͡ʃe/ [ˈno.t͡ʃe]
    • Audio (Spain):(file)
    • Rhymes: -otʃe
    • Syllabification: no‧che

    Noun

    noche f (plural noches)

    1. night (the period between sunset and sunrise)
      Antonym: día
      por la nocheat night
      durante la nocheat night / overnight / at night time
    2. evening (after sunset)
      Synonym: tarde

    Derived terms

    Adverb

    noche

    1. after dark, (late) at night, nocturnally
      Synonyms: de noche, por la noche
      Me gusta jugar videojuegos noche.
      I like playing videogames at night.
      Llegamos a casa muy noche.
      We arrived home late at night.
      Ya es algo noche, tengo que ir a dormir.
      It's bit late (at night), I need to go to sleep.

    Usage notes

    • In Mexico and Central America, the adverb might accept degree adverbs (e.g. algo, muy, un poco, etc.), shifting its meaning to "late at night". The same phenomenon is observed in de noche (e.g. "Es muy de noche para estudiar." ("It's too late at night to study.")).[1]

    See also

    References

    1. ^ @RAEinforma (14 February 2022), Twitter[1] (in Spanish), archived from the original on 18 October 2024:El uso de «noche» como adverbio graduable con el sentido de ‘por la noche, de noche’, documentado desde antiguo, se registra hoy, principalmente, en México y Centroamérica: «Lo que pasa es que ya es muy noche» (Juan Rulfo).

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