different between nostalgia vs nocturnal

English

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek ?????? (nóstos, “returning home”) + ????? (álgos, “pain”). Ancient Greek *????????? (*nostalgía) is unattested. Compare Italian nostalgia, Spanish nostalgia, Portuguese nostalgia and saudade and French nostalgie.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n??stald??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /n??stæld??/, /n??stæld??/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /n??stæld??/

Noun

nostalgia (countable and uncountable, plural nostalgias)

1. A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
2. A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
3. Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.

Synonyms

• nostalgy

Derived terms

• nostalgic
• nostalgically

Antonyms

• nostopathy
• nostophobia

Translations

See also

• halcyon days
• hark back
• memory lane
• reminiscence

Anagrams

• analogist, antigoals, galtonias

Finnish

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek ?????? (nóstos, “returning home”) + ????? (álgos, “pain”).

Noun

nostalgia

1. nostalgia

Declension

Derived terms

• nostalgikko
• nostalginen
• nostalgisesti
• nostalgisoida
• nostalgisointi
• nostalgisuus

Italian

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek ?????? (nóstos, “returning home”) + ????? (álgos, “pain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nos.tal?d??i.a/
• Hyphenation: no?stal?gi?a

Noun

nostalgia f (plural nostalgie)

1. nostalgia, homesickness, longing

Related terms

• nostalgico

Anagrams

• angolasti
• lagnatosi
• stagliano

Polish

Etymology

From French nostalgie, from New Latin nostalgia, from Ancient Greek ?????? (nóstos) + ????? (álgos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??stal.??ja/

Noun

nostalgia f

1. nostalgia (yearning for the past)

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) nostalgik, nostalgiczka
• (adjective) nostalgiczny

Related terms

• (adverb) nostalgicznie

Further reading

• nostalgia in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• nostalgia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek ?????? (nóstos, “returning home”) + ????? (álgos, “pain”).

Cognate with Galician nostalxia.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nu?.ta?.??i.?/
• Hyphenation: nos?tal?gi?a

Noun

nostalgia f (plural nostalgias)

1. nostalgia (yearning for the past)

Spanish

Etymology

From New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek ?????? (nóstos, “returning home”) + ????? (álgos, “pain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nos?talxja/, [nos?t?al.xja]
• Hyphenation: nos?tal?gia

Noun

nostalgia f (plural nostalgias)

1. nostalgia

Related terms

• nostálgico

English

Etymology

From Middle French nocturnal, from Latin nocturnus (“nocturnal, nightly”), from Latin nox (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nók?ts (“night”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ??? (núx), Sanskrit ????? (nákti), Old English niht (English night) and Proto-Slavic *no??.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n?k?t??(?)n?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /n?k?t?n?l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n?l

Adjective

nocturnal (comparative more nocturnal, superlative most nocturnal)

1. (of a person, creature, group, or species) Primarily active during the night.

2. (of an occurrence) Taking place at night, nightly.

Antonyms

• diurnal

Coordinate terms

• crepuscular

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

nocturnal (plural nocturnals)

1. A person or creature that is active at night.
2. (historical) A device for telling the time at night, rather like a sundial but read according to the stars.

   Synonym: star clock

   • 2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin 2016, p. 188:

     A rather different instrument was the nocturnal: it enabled you to tell the time at night, provided you knew the date, from the position of the stars in the constellation of the Great Bear, which rotate around the Pole Star.

Old French

Adjective

nocturnal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular nocturnale)

1. nocturnal

References

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