noctiluca

== English == === Etymology === From Latin noctilūca. === 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. (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. === Anagrams === ciclatoun == Latin == === Etymology === From nox (“night”) +‎ luceō (“to shine”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [nɔk.tɪˈɫuː.ka] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [nok.tiˈluː.ka] Hyphenation: noc‧ti‧lu‧ca === Noun === noctilūca f (genitive noctilūcae); first declension (literally) Something which shines by night. The Moon. 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, 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. == Middle English == === Etymology === From Medieval Latin noctilūca (“something which shines by night”). === Noun === noctilūca (plural noctilucae) A firefly, glowworm. misspelling of noctilupa (nyctalopia) ==== 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.