different between crepuscular vs gloaming

English

Etymology

From Latin crepusculum +? -ar.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k???p?skj?l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k???p?skj?l??/

Adjective

crepuscular (comparative more crepuscular, superlative most crepuscular)

1. Of or resembling twilight; dim.
2. (zoology) Active at or around dusk, dawn or twilight.
   • 1999, J. Anne Helgren, Communicating with Your Cat, page 51, ?ISBN

     That's why cats are crepuscular — most active at dawn and dusk — because mice and rats forage for food during these hours when fewer of their natural enemies are around.

Synonyms

• twilightish

Coordinate terms

• diurnal
• nocturnal

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Catalan

Adjective

crepuscular (masculine and feminine plural crepusculars)

1. crepuscular

Related terms

• crepuscle

Galician

Adjective

crepuscular m or f (plural crepusculares)

1. crepuscular

Related terms

• crepúsculo

Portuguese

Adjective

crepuscular m or f (plural crepusculares, not comparable)

1. crepuscular

Related terms

• crepúsculo

Romanian

Etymology

From French crépusculaire.

Adjective

crepuscular m or n (feminine singular crepuscular?, masculine plural crepusculari, feminine and neuter plural crepusculare)

1. crepuscular

Declension

Related terms

• crepuscul

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?epusku?la?/, [k?e.pus.ku?la?]

Adjective

crepuscular (plural crepusculares)

1. crepuscular

Related terms

• crepúsculo

Further reading

• “crepuscular” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From a dialectal variant of glooming, from Middle English *gloming, from Old English gl?mung, from Old English gl?m (“twilight”); synchronically gloom +? -ing. Related to glow.

The OED notes: "The vowel of the modern gloaming is anomalous, as Old English gl?mung should normally become glooming. The explanation is probably that the ? was shortened in the compound ?fen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new subject gl?mung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English gl?ming, modern English gloaming."

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l??.m??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??lo?.m??/
• Rhymes: -??m??

Noun

gloaming (plural gloamings)

1. (poetry, Scotland, Northern England) Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.

   Synonyms: crepuscule, glooming, vespers; see also Thesaurus:twilight

   Antonyms: daytime, daylight, nighttime, darkness
2. (obsolete) Sullenness; melancholy.

   Synonyms: crepuscule, glooming, misery, sadness, sorrow, woe

Translations

Verb

gloaming

1. present participle of gloam

References