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nuiturnel (s.xii1)
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The form nuturnal is a cross reference to the following entry:

nuiturnel (s.xii1)

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nuiternel;  nuternal;  nutrenal;  nuturnal,  nuturnel; 
pl. nuternaus,  nutrenaus,  nuturnaus  (nuiterhel  Camb Ps 168.XC.5)  
  FEW:  nocturnus 7,163b Gdf:  nuitrenel 5,546b GdfC: ∅ TL: nuitrenel 6,906 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  nocturnal  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  nocturnus 1921c

The word nuiturnel and its synonyms nocturne, nocturnel, and nuital all represent different stages of the development of Latin nocturnus and nocturnalis into French. The exceptional substantival use does not seem to have existed in Latin or in Continental French.

a.

timenocturnal, of the night: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  ne crendras de nuiternel (var. (P: s.xii4/4) nuiturnel) pour [...] d'encurement e diable meridien  Oxf Ps1 133.XC.5
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  mil an en tes oilz sicume [...] la veille nuturnele (var. (B: s.xii4/4) nuturnale) (Latin: vigilia nocturna)  Camb Ps 166.LXXXIX.4
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiiex )  les dutes nuternaus, ke ne aprochent a li  Chant Chanz 1321

s.

that which the night brings: 
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiiex )  Iceste cuntre nutrenaus ad riche defensaille, Ke pur rens ne pot cheir ke ad tel apuaille  Chant Chanz 1344

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See also:

nocturnel  nuital 
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