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noctiluca
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See also: Noctiluca
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nŏkˌtĭ.lo͞oˈkə, IPA(key): /ˌnɒk.tɪˈluː.kə/
- (General American) enPR: näkˌtĭ.lo͞oˈkə, IPA(key): /ˌnɑk.tɪˈlu.kə/
- Hyphenation: noc‧ti‧lu‧ca
Noun
noctiluca (countable and uncountable, plural noctilucae or noctilucas)
- (obsolete) A firefly, glowworm.
- 1917, Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington:
- If a number of noctilucas are punctured with a needle, causing the cells to collapse, and are then subjected to an interrupted current, they respond just as uninjured cells do.
- (obsolete) The moon
- (obsolete) A phosphorescent substance
- Noctiluca scintillans (sea sparkle).
Derived terms
- icy noctiluca
- noctilucal
- noctilucan
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “noctiluca”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “noctiluca”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “noctiluca, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2003.
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Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [nɔk.tɪˈɫuː.ka]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [nok.t̪iˈluː.ka]
- Hyphenation: noc‧ti‧lu‧ca
Noun
noctilūca f (genitive noctilūcae); first declension
- (literally) Something which shines by night.
- The Moon.
- 1st c. BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De lingua Latina Liber VX.11, (http://www.intratext.com/IXT/LAT0231/_P5.HTM):
- Luna, vel quod sola lucet noctu. Itaque ea dicta Noctiluca in Palatio: nam ibi noctu lucet templum.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Luna, vel quod sola lucet noctu. Itaque ea dicta Noctiluca in Palatio: nam ibi noctu lucet templum.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:noctiluca.
- (countable) A candle, a lamp, a lantern
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “noctiluca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “noctiluca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "noctiluca", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “noctiluca”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “noctiluca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "Noctĭlūca", in Charles Anthon, A Latin-English and English-Latin dictionary, for the use of schools, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852 (1853 printing), p. 586. →OCLC.
- "noctĭlūca" in James Robert Vernam Marchant, Joseph F. Charles, eds., Cassell's Latin dictionary (in English and Latin), New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953 printing, p. 366. →OCLC.
- "Noctilūca", in George R. Crooks, Alexander J. Schem, eds., A new Latin-English school lexicon : on the basis of the Latin-German lexicon of Dr. C. F. Ingerslev, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1867, p. 610. →OCLC.
- "nōctĭlūcă", in Frederick Percival Leverett, ed., A new and copious lexicon of the Latin language, new ed., Boston: Bazin & Ellsworth, 1850, v. 1, p. 570. →OCLC.
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Middle English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin noctilūca (“something which shines by night”).
Noun
noctilūca (plural noctilucae)
References
- “noctiluca, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 April 2015.
- “noctilupa, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 April 2015.
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