different between serenade vs nocturne

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French sérénade, from Italian serenata, from the past participle of serenare, from Latin serenare, from serenus (“calm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s????ne?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

serenade (plural serenades)

1. A love song that is sung directly to one's love interest, especially one performed below the window of a loved one in the evening.
2. (music) An instrumental composition in several movements.

Translations

Verb

serenade (third-person singular simple present serenades, present participle serenading, simple past and past participle serenaded)

1. (transitive) To sing or play a serenade for (someone).
   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)[1]

     The Southampton striker, who also struck a post late on, was being serenaded by the Wembley crowd before the end and should probably brace himself for some Lambert-mania over the coming days but, amid the eulogies, it should not overlook the deficiencies that were evident in another stodgy England performance.

Translations

Further reading

• serenade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• enseared

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

serenade f (plural serenades)

1. serenade

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sere?nade]

Noun

serenade f pl

1. plural of serenad?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French nocturne (literally “nocturnal”), from Latin nocturnus. Doublet of notturno.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?kt??n/, /(?)n?k?t??n/
• (General American) enPR: n?k?tûrn', n?k?t?rn, IPA^(key): /?n?k?t?n/, /?n?kt?n/
• Rhymes: -?kt??(?)n, -?kt?(?)n, -??(?)n
• Hyphenation: noc?turne

Noun

nocturne (plural nocturnes)

1. A work of art relating or dedicated to the night.
2. (music) A dreamlike or pensive composition, usually for the piano.

   • “My tastes,” he said, still smiling, “incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet.” And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: “I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I’d rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don’t like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […].”

Antonyms

• diurne

Related terms

• nocturnist
• nocturnal
• diurnal
• crepuscular

Translations

See also

• aubade

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nocturnus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?k.ty?n/

Adjective

nocturne (plural nocturnes)

1. nocturnal
   • 1857, Chalres Baudelaire, Je t'adore from Les Fleurs du mal

     Je t'adore à l'égal de la voûte nocturne,

     Ô vase de tristesse, ô grande taciturne,

     Et t'aime d'autant plus, belle, que tu me fuis,

     Et que tu me parais, ornement de mes nuits

   Antonym: diurne

2. of night

Derived terms

• tapage nocturne

Noun

nocturne m (plural nocturnes)

1. (music) nocturne

Noun

nocturne f (plural nocturnes)

1. opening hours at night
2. match of sport at night

Further reading

• “nocturne” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• reconnut, reconnût

Interlingua

Adjective

nocturne (comparative plus nocturne, superlative le plus nocturne)

1. nocturnal

Latin

Adjective

nocturne

1. vocative masculine singular of nocturnus

Middle English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin nocturna, noun use of the feminine form of Latin nocturnus (“nocturnal, of the night”), derived from nox (“night”).

Noun

nocturne (plural nocturns)

1. (Christianity) nocturn

Descendants

• English: nocturn

References

• “nocturne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.