crepusculum

From Latin crepusculum

crepusculum (uncountable)

1. crepuscule; twilight; dusk

   [Earthshine] should appear more splendid and be visible after the crepusculum in the dark of night.

• crepuscular

• “crepusculum” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

From creper (“dusky, dark”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kreˈpus.ku.lum/, [krɛˈpʊs.kʊ.ɫũ]

crepusculum n (genitive crepusculī); second declension

1. twilight, evening, dusk
2. darkness

In Medieval use (e.g., Bede), sometimes conceived as a particular period of evening lasting from sunset to vespers, the darker period of twilight when Venus and the stars began to appear.

Second declension.

• creper
• creperum

• English: crepuscule, crepusculum, crepuscular
• French: crépuscule
• Italian: crepuscolo
• Portuguese: crepúsculo
• Romanian: crepuscul
• Spanish: crepúsculo

• crepusculum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• crepusculum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crepusculum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• crepusculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette