noctívago
Portuguese
noun
Definitions
- night owl one who stays up late at night
Etymology
Compound from Latin nox (night, darkness) + Latin vagus (wandering, strolling, flighty, vague, rambling, inconstant, uncertain, roaming, giddy, errant).
Origin
Latin
vagus
Gloss
wandering, strolling, flighty, vague, rambling, inconstant, uncertain, roaming, giddy, errant
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- noctambulation English
- noctidial English
- noctograph English
- noctovision English
- nocturia English
- vagus English
- Venerivagus Latin
- abnocto Latin
- aequinoctium Latin
- arenivagus Latin
- circumvagus Latin
- fluctivagus Latin
- harenivagus Latin
- ignivagus Latin
- ludivagus Latin
- lustrivagus Latin
- montivagus Latin
- multivagus Latin
- mundivagus Latin
- nemorivagus Latin
- noctanter Latin
- noctesco Latin
- nocticola Latin
- noctiluca Latin
- noctivagus Latin
- noctividus Latin
- nocturnus Latin
- nox Latin
- nubivagus Latin
- paludivagus Latin
- pervagus Latin
- pontivagus Latin
- remivagus Latin
- solivagus Latin
- undivagus Latin
- vagor Latin
- vagus Latin
- vulgivagus Latin
- gaio Italian
- vago Italian
- vague French
- *nókʷts Proto-Indo-European
- vag Norwegian Bokmål
- vago Portuguese
- vag Norwegian Nynorsk
- gai Old French
- vague Catalan, Valencian
- vague Middle French
- *noxs Proto-Celtic
- *wagos Proto-Italic
- *gāhi Frankish
- *wāhi Frankish
- gai Old Occitan
- noih Old Occitan
- neut Bourguignon
- nos Middle Welsh
- nuet Franco-Provençal
- nòta Romagnol