nuit

Inherited from Middle French nuyt, from Old French noit, nuit, from Latin noctem, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

• (France) IPA^(key): /nɥi/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /nwi/
• (Québec, popular) IPA^(key): /nɥit/

• Audio; “une nuit”:

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• Homophones: nui, nuis, nuits
• Rhymes: -ɥi

nuit f (plural nuits)

1. night

• minuit
• nuitamment
• nuitée

• Haitian Creole: nwit

From nuire.

• (France) IPA^(key): /nɥi/
• Homophones: nui, nuis, nuits
• Rhymes: -ɥi

nuit

1. third-person singular present indicative of nuire

• “nuit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• unit, unît

nuit f

1. night

• IPA^(key): /ˈnyi̯t/

nuit oblique singular, f (oblique plural nuiz or nuitz, nominative singular nuit, nominative plural nuiz or nuitz)

1. Alternative form of noit