νύξ, νυκτός, ἡ,
night: either generally,
mght-season (opposed to day), or
a night, ν. ἀμβροσίη [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; but ν. ὀλοή[
Refs 8th c.BC+], III; νυκτός
by night, as
adverb, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; νυκτὸς ἔτι
while it was still
night, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄκρας ν. at dead of
night, [
Refs]
night-fall, [
Refs 4th c.BC+] on the verge of dawn, [
Refs]; ἀωρὶ νυκτός, τῶν νυκτῶν, see at {ἀωρί}: in
plural, τῶν νυκτῶν
at nights, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; νύκτα
the night long, νύκτα φυλάσσειν to watch
the night through, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]: in
Attic dialect, ὅλην τὴν ν. [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; νύκτα ἡμέραν ποιούμενος ἀπόστειλον (κατάπεμψον), i. e. without delay, [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; μέσαι νύκτες
midnight, [
Refs 7th c.BC+]
2) frequently with Preps, ἀνὰ νύκτα by
night, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀνὰ πᾶσαν ν. all
night through, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰς νύκτα, εἰς τὴν ν, towards
night, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν νυττί (νυκτί), opposed to πεδ᾽ ἀμέραν, [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; κατὰ νύκτα [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑπὸ νύκτα to wards
nightfall, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; μετὰ νύκτας by
night, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; μεθ᾽ ἡμέραν καὶ διὰ νυκτός all through
the night, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ νυκτός after
nightfall, [
LXX+6th c.BC+]; πόρρω τῶν νυκτῶν far into
the night, [
Refs]; ἐπὶ νυκτί by
night, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
3) in
plural,
watches of the night, [
Refs]; three such, παροίχωκεν δὲ πλέων νὺξ τῶν δύο μοιράων, τριτάτη δ᾽ ἔτι μοῖρα λέλειπται [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; τρίχα νυκτὸς ἔην, for τρίτον μέρος τῆς νυκτὸς ἦν, it was the third watch, i. e. next before morning, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
II)
metaphorically of darkness, νυκτὶ καλύψαι [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
II.2)
metaphorically of death, ἀμφὶ δὲ ὄσσε κελαινὴ ν. ἐκάλυψε [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
II.3) in Comparisons, of anything dark and direful, νυκτὶ ἐοικώς like
night, of Apollo in his wrath, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; τάδε νυκτὶ ἐΐσκει what is here he like ns
to night, [
Refs]; ὀλεθρία ν, of a great calamity, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
III) Νύξ as
proper name,
the goddess of Night, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
IV)
the night- or
evening-quarter of heaven, the West, πρὸς νυκτός [
Refs]
nox, Lithuanian
naktis, Gothic
nahts, etc.)