noche

From Old Spanish noche, from an earlier *noite, from Latin noctem, accusative of nox.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔtʃɛ/

noche f (Latin spelling)

1. night
   • 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.

From an earlier *noite, from Latin noctem, accusative of nox, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts, cognate with English night.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnotʃe/

noche f (plural noches)

1. night

• Ladino: noche
• Spanish: noche

Inherited from Old Spanish noche, from an earlier *noite, from Latin noctem (compare Catalan nit, French nuit, Italian notte, Portuguese noite, Romanian noapte).

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

   Synonyms: de noche, por la noche

   Me gusta jugar videojugos noche.

   I like playing videogames at night.

   LLegamos a casa muy noche.

   We arrived home well late at night.

   Ya es algo noche, tengo que ir a dormir.

   It's somewhat 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]

• mañana
• tarde

• “noche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28