Inherited fromOld Galician-Portuguesenoite, fromLatinnoctem, nox, fromProto-Indo-European*nókʷts. Cognate withPortuguesenoite andSpanishnoche.
noite f (pluralnoites)
- night;period ofdark, when thesun is below thehorizon
- Antonym:día
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “noyte”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “noyte”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “noite”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “noite”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “noite”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN
Old Galician-Portuguese
[edit]Inherited fromLatinnoctem, fromProto-Indo-European*nókʷts. Cognate withOld Spanishnoche andMozarabicنخت(nuxti).
noite f (pluralnoites)
- night
- u ides aſſi marido denoite come ladron.
- Where do you go like that atnight like a thief, husband?
Inherited fromOld Galician-Portuguesenoite, fromLatinnoctem, fromProto-Indo-European*nókʷts. CompareGaliciannoite,Spanishnoche.
noite f (pluralnoites)
- night(period between sunset and sunrise)
- Antonym:dia
- 1915,Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa),“É noite”:
Énoite. Anoite é muito escura. Numa casa a uma grande distancia. Brilha a luz d'uma janella.- It'snight. Thenight is very dark. In a house a great distance away. The light from a window shines.
- nightlife
- Então, vais para anoite? ―Are you going out to thenightlife?
- Synonym:night
For quotations using this term, seeCitations:noite.
