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noctu

noctu is a Latin form of nox, meaning “night”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 214 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.8.4: … sque compluribus factis, alii vadis Rhodani, qua minima altitudo fluminis erat, non numquam interdiu, saepius noctu si perrumpere possent conati, operis munitione et militum concursu et telis repulsi, hoc conatu destiterunt.

Plautus, Casina 4.4.820: noctúque et diu ut viro súbdola sis,

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.