pernocto Latin · revision 33170

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *nógʷʰ-t-s}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pɛrˈnɔk.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [perˈnɔk.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pernoctō''' (present infinitive pernoctāre, perfect active pernoctāvī, supine pernoctātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pernox|-ō|t1=lasting all night]],^(OLD 2012) or formed directly from [[m|la|per-]] and [[m|la|nox|t=night]], like [[m|la|peragrō]].^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|nox]] to [[itc-pro|*nok(w)-t-]] and [[ine-pro|*nógʷʰ-t-s|t=night]], cognate with [[grc|νύξ|tr=núx]] and [[lt|naktìs]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in Plautus, then in Terence and Cicero;^(TLL) Plautus' ''Truculentus'' has ''noctem pernoctāre perpetem'', to spend the whole night through.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to spend the night somewhere or with someone, as Varro says one must not spend the night outdoors, Cicero of a man staying the night at a place, and Livy of spending the night outside the walls.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid uses it of a letter that will spend the night with the beloved instead of the writer.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The grammarian Priscian derives it from ''nox''.^(TLL) It lives on in [[it|pernottare]], [[ca|pernuytar]] and [[pt|pernoitar]].^(TLL) Stelten gives “spend the night”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of spending the whole night.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of staying the night.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of a letter staying the night.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To spend or pass the [[m|en|night]] (in a place, with someone).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To guard a place all night.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[pernoctatio]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pernox]]

+ * [[nox]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}