crepusculum

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin crepusculum. Doublet of crepuscle and crepuscule. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /kɹɪˈpʌs.kjʊ.ləm/ (US) IPA(key): /kɹɪˈpʌs.kjə.ləm/ Rhymes: -ʌskjʊləm === Noun === crepusculum (uncountable) crepuscule; twilight; dusk ==== Synonyms ==== cockshut, mirkning, nightfall; see also Thesaurus:dusk ==== Related terms ==== crepuscular === References === John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “crepusculum”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. == Latin == === Etymology === Uncertain, from *crepos (a lost s-stem neuter noun from the same root as creper) + -culum. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [krɛˈpʊs.kʊ.ɫũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kreˈpus.ku.lum] === Noun === crepusculum n (genitive crepusculī); second declension twilight, dusk darkness doubt Synonym: dubium ==== Usage notes ==== In Medieval use (e.g., Bede), sometimes conceived as a particular period of evening lasting from sunset to vespers, the darker period of twilight when Venus and the stars began to appear. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Coordinate terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== creper creperum n ==== Descendants ==== >? Galician: crepúsculo >? Italian: crepuscolo m >? Occitan: crepuscul m → Catalan: crepuscle m → Old French: crepuscule mMiddle French: crepuscule mFrench: crépuscule m→ Romanian: crepuscul n→ English: crepuscule →? Portuguese: crepúsculo → Spanish: crepúsculo → English: crepusculum, ⇒ crepuscular; crepuscle === References === “crepusculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “crepusculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "crepusculum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “crepusculum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Annie Cecilia Burman (24 March 2018), De Lingua Sabina: A Reappraisal of the Sabine Glosses‎[1], →DOI, pages 62-64 Walter Petersen (1935), “Some Greek Examples of Word-Contamination”, in The American Journal of Philology‎[2] (in Latin), volume 56, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 54–60