nocti-, noct-, nox +

An intense fascination with night as opposed to daylight.

An irrational fear of night and darkness which may be related to a fear of the unknown or that which can not be seen.

Someone who has an irrational fear of night and its silence and darkness or of what might happen at night.

An excessive urination at night, possibly due to excessive fluid intake before going to bed, prostatic disease, urinary tract infection, or impaired renal function that results in excretion of urine with a low specific gravity; also nycturia.

1. In the Roman Catholic Church, one of the three divisions of the service of matins, previously held at midnight but now usually at daybreak.
2. An office of devotion, or an act of religious service, by night.

A reference to night-flying insects; as opposed to diurnae or daylight-flying insects.

1. Of or pertaining to the night; done, held, or occurring by night.
2. Active during the hours of darkness or lasting only one night as opposed to diurnal, "daylight".
3. Used to describe animals that are active at night rather than during the day.
4. A reference to flowers that open at night and close during the day.
5. An astronomical instrument adapted for taking observations by which one may ascertain the hour of the night, etc

At night: "The biologists were not aware of this nocturnally active bird."

1. A musical composition, especially for the piano, that suggests a tranquil dreamy mood.

It evolved during the early 19th century, and Chopin was the most famous composer of nocturnes.

2. A painting of a night scene.
3. Etymology: a "composition of a dreamy character"; from French nocturne, literally, "composition appropriate to the night"; a noun use of Old French nocturne, "nocturnal"; from Latin nocturnus.

It is said to have been coined in about 1814 by John Field, who wrote many of them, in a style that Chopin mastered in his own works, which popularized the term.

1. The Roman mythological goddess of night.
2. A reference to night; used primarily in poetry.

Of or relating to the night; nocturnal.

The action of passing or spending the night; especially, in ecclesiastical use, spending the night in prayer; an all-night vigil.

Emotionally induced excessive water drinking at night.

Something that is accomplished in half a night.

Night sweat or drenching perspiration occurring at night, or whenever the patient sleeps, in the course of pulmonary tuberculosis or other febrile diseases.