Etymology

equinoctes

equi·noc·tes
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The story

This would be the plural of equinox if it were a Latin word; the accusative, nominative, or vocative plural of Latin nox (“night”) is noctēs.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.