pernox

Latin

Etymology

per noctem ("through the night") + -s or a back-formation from pernoctō.

Pronunciation

Adjective

pernox (genitive pernoctis); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. lasting all night
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.268:
      addit et exceptās lūnā pernocte pruīnās
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative pernox pernoctēs pernoctia
genitive pernoctis pernoctium
dative pernoctī pernoctibus
accusative pernoctem pernox pernoctēs pernoctia
ablative pernocte pernoctibus
vocative pernox pernoctēs pernoctia
  • Only the nominative singular pernox and the ablative singular pernocte are attested in Classical Latin.

References

  • “pernox”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • pernox in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
  • “pernox”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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