What does notte in Italian mean?

What is the meaning of the word notte in Italian? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use notte in Italian.

The word notte in Italian means night, nighttime, black as night, darkest hour, in the middle of the night, nightgown, it's like night and day, risky stuff, since the dawn of time, during the night, since the dawn of time, for donkey's years, day and night, last night, sleep on it, his origins cannot be traced back, his origins are lost in time, a thousand and one nights,Arabian nights, bygone times, ages ago, dead of night, middle of the night, Nuit Blanche, wild night, crazy night, scary night, dark and stormy night, dead of night, sleepless night, dead of night, early hours of the morning, that makes things even worse than they are, it's getting dark, night is falling, at dusk, make it through the night, late night, bedpan, chamber pot, bedrooms. To learn more, please see the details below.

Listen to pronunciation

Meaning of the word notte

night, nighttime

sostantivo femminile (intervallo tra tramonto ed alba)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
La notte invernale arriva già a metà pomeriggio.
By mid afternoon it is already night (or: nighttime) in the winter.

black as night

sostantivo femminile (oscurità)

In questa cantina è proprio notte fonda.
It's black as night in this basement.

darkest hour

sostantivo femminile (figurato (pessima situazione) (figurative)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Questa periodo è la notte della democrazia.
This is democracy's darkest hour.

in the middle of the night

nightgown

sostantivo femminile (indumento)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

it's like night and day

(completely different)

risky stuff

(expression: Prepositional phrase, adverbial phrase, or other phrase or expression--for example, "behind the times," "on your own.")

since the dawn of time

during the night

locuzione avverbiale (quando è notte)

since the dawn of time, for donkey's years

(figurative)

(expression: Prepositional phrase, adverbial phrase, or other phrase or expression--for example, "behind the times," "on your own.")

day and night

last night

sleep on it

(colloquial)

(verbal expression: Phrase with special meaning functioning as verb--for example, "put their heads together," "come to an end.")
I cannot decide whether to take up that offer, I'll sleep on it

his origins cannot be traced back, his origins are lost in time

a thousand and one nights,Arabian nights

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

bygone times, ages ago

preposizione o locuzione preposizionale (letterario (tanto tempo fa, origini remote)

L'origine degli scacchi si perde nella notte dei tempi.
The origin of chess goes back to bygone times

dead of night, middle of the night

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

Nuit Blanche

(French, organised event)

wild night, crazy night

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

scary night, dark and stormy night

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

dead of night

sleepless night

sostantivo femminile (non dormire per tutta la notte)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

dead of night, early hours of the morning

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

that makes things even worse than they are

it's getting dark, night is falling

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")

at dusk

make it through the night

(figurative)

late night

bedpan, chamber pot

sostantivo maschile

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

bedrooms

(home design)

Let's learn Italian

So now that you know more about the meaning of notte in Italian, you can learn how to use them through selected examples and how to read them. And remember to learn the related words that we suggest. Our website is constantly updating with new words and new examples so you can look up the meanings of other words you don't know in Italian.

Do you know about Italian

Italian (italiano) is a Romance language and is spoken by about 70 million people, most of whom live in Italy. Italian uses the Latin alphabet. The letters J, K, W, X and Y do not exist in the standard Italian alphabet, but they still appear in loanwords from Italian. Italian is the second most widely spoken in the European Union with 67 million speakers (15% of the EU population) and it is spoken as a second language by 13.4 million EU citizens (3%). Italian is the principal working language of the Holy See, serving as the lingua franca in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. An important event that helped to the spread of Italian was Napoleon's conquest and occupation of Italy in the early 19th century. This conquest spurred the unification of Italy several decades later and pushed the language of the Italian language. Italian became a language used not only among secretaries, aristocrats and the Italian courts, but also by the bourgeoisie.