noche

• noce (Romania), noče (Yugoslavia), notche (France)

Inherited from Old Spanish noche, from Latin nox, from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔtʃɛ/

noche f (Hebrew spelling נוג׳י)^[1]

1. night

   Antonym: día

   • 2019, Silvyo OVADYA, “Hanukah Alegre”, in Şalom Gazetesi‎^[2]:

     Alhad la noche vamos a asender la primera kandela de muestras Hanukiyas.

     Sunday night we're going to light the first candle on our Hanukiyas.

• noiche

noche oblique singular, f (oblique plural noches, nominative singular noche, nominative plural noches)

1. buckle; clasp

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (noche)

Inherited from Latin nox, from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnotʃe/

noche f (plural noches)

1. night

• Ladino: noche
• Spanish: noche

Inherited from Old Spanish noche, from Latin nox, from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnot͡ʃe/ [ˈno.t͡ʃe]

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• Rhymes: -otʃe
• Syllabification: no‧che

noche f (plural noches)

1. night (the period between sunset and sunrise)

   Antonym: día

   por la noche ― at night

   durante la noche ― at night / overnight / at night time

2. evening (after sunset)

   Synonym: tarde

noche

1. after dark, (late) at night, nocturnally

   Synonyms: de noche, por la noche

   Me gusta jugar videojuegos noche.

   I like playing videogames at night.

   Llegamos a casa muy noche.

   We arrived home late at night.

   Ya es algo noche, tengo que ir a dormir.

   It's bit late (at night), I need to go to sleep.

• In Mexico and Central America, the adverb might accept degree adverbs (e.g. algo, muy, un poco, etc.), shifting its meaning to "late at night". The same phenomenon is observed in de noche (e.g. "Es muy de noche para estudiar." ("It's too late at night to study.")).^[1]

• “noche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024