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noctis

noctis is a Latin form of nox, meaning “night”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun or accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 437 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.26.5: Ex eo proelio circiter hominum milia CXXX superfuerunt eaque tota nocte continenter ierunt [nullam partem noctis itinere intermisso]; in fines Lingonum die quarto pervenerunt, cum et propter vulnera militum et propter sepu …

Vergil, Aeneid 7.138: flumina, tum Noctem Noctisque orientia signa

Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.1: NOCTIS gallicinio venit quidam iuvenis e proxuma civitate, ut quidem mihi videbatur unus ex famulis Charites, puella …

All forms of nox (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.