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nocturnally

nocturnally

1 7.1
During the night
  • adverb
  • /nɒkˈtɜrnəli/
: nocturnamente
  • The festival took place nocturnally, allowing visitors to enjoy music and art beneath the stars.

Examples

  • We wanted to find out whether shorebirds feed nocturnally throughout the year, even on moonless nights, and whether this behavior might help them cope with increasing human disturbance during daylight hours.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Adults emerge in spring and feed nocturnally on newly formed leaves of Lythrum salicaria. Oviposition lasts two to three months and consists of one to three eggs individually deposited each day into the stem and covered with frass.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Many animals, such as owls and bats, are active nocturnally, hunting for food during the night.

  • Some plants bloom nocturnally, attracting pollinators like moths when the sun goes down.

How Nightly

nocturnally
1 7.1
regularly
378 1.0
occasionally
407 2.0

Surface Forms

nocturnally positive

Morphology

nocturnally = nocturnal (transparent) = nocturnal + ly

Standard adverbial formation by adding '-ly' to the adjective 'nocturnal', so the meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

The word nocturnally comes from the root noct- meaning 'night', the same root in the adjective nocturnal. So, to do something nocturnally is to do it 'during the night'.