Etymology

noctuid

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Today it means: Any moth in the species-rich family Noctuidae or the superfamily Noctuoidea. Full definition →

Latin noctua ← Proto-Italic *noktowe ← Proto-Indo-European *nokʷt-ew
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*nokʷt-ew
  2. Proto-Italic*noktowe
  3. Latinnoctū
  4. Latin*noctūus
  5. Latinnoctua
  6. English todaynoctuid

Borrowed from Translingual Noctuidae.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.