{"id":12315,"date":"2016-04-29T17:13:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T16:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12315"},"modified":"2016-04-29T17:13:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T16:13:53","slug":"will-you-be-pernoctating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12315","title":{"rendered":"Will you be pernoctating?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If someone asked you if you were planning to <strong>pernoctate<\/strong>, would you know what they meant?<\/p>\n<p>This is a word I came across today in the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/a-linguist-abroad.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/08\/interesting-cambridge-rules.html\">A Linguist Abroad<\/a> in a post about &#8216;Interesting&#8217; Cambridge rules. It appears in the sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Tutor (the <strong>pernoctating<\/strong> Tutor) is on duty every night and may stop a gathering forthwith if it is causing disturbance to other members of the College or neighbouring community. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> (emphasis added)<\/p>\n<p>To <strong>pernoctate<\/strong> [\u02c8p\u025c\u02d0.n\u0252k.te\u026at] (UK) [p\u025a\u02c8n\u0251k\u02ccte\u026at] (US), is &#8220;to stay all night; to pass the night (especially in prayer)&#8221;, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/pernoctate#English\">Wikitionary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>pernoctation<\/strong> is:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; An overnight stay; action (or instance) of abiding through the night at a location.<br \/>\n&#8211; The action (or an instance) of walking about at night, especially as a vigil or watch.<br \/>\n&#8211; A religious watch kept during normal sleeping hours, during which prayers or other ceremonies are performed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the usage notes, &#8220;the sense of a religious watch may apply either to a holy vigil or to diabolical activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These words come from the Late Latin <em>pernoct\u0101ti\u014d<\/em> \u200e(a spending [of] the night), from the Latin <em>pernoct\u0101re<\/em> (to send the night), from <em>per-<\/em> (through) and <em>nox\/noct-<\/em> (night).<\/p>\n<p>Students who need to work all night to finish an assignment \/ essay, or to revise for an exam might &#8220;pull an all-nighter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Are there other ways to express this idea?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone asked you if you were planning to pernoctate, would you know what they meant? This is a word I came across today in the blog A Linguist Abroad in a post about &#8216;Interesting&#8217; Cambridge rules. It appears in the sentence: A Tutor (the pernoctating Tutor) is on duty every night and may stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,15,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-latin","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}