abnocto
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /abˈnok.toː/, [äbˈnɔkt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /abˈnok.to/, [äbˈnɔkt̪o]
Verb
abnoctō (present infinitive abnoctāre, perfect active abnoctāvī, supine abnoctātum); first conjugation, impersonal in the passive (rare, post-Augustan)
- to spend or pass the night abroad or away from home, stay out all night
- c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 13.12.9:
- […] ac proptereā iūs abnoctandī adēmptum, quoniam, ut vim fierī vetārent, adsiduitāte eōrum et praesentium oculīs opus erat.
- […] and this is why the right of spending the night away was taken away from them [the tribunes of the plebs], because there was need of their work and supervision so that they may veto injustice.
- […] ac proptereā iūs abnoctandī adēmptum, quoniam, ut vim fierī vetārent, adsiduitāte eōrum et praesentium oculīs opus erat.
Conjugation
References
- “abnocto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abnocto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “abnoctō” in volume 1, column 112, line 26 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
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