(verb) : per-nocto, āvi, 1
* To stay all night long, to pass the night (class.).
* Lit.: foris non est pernoctandum,Varr. R. R. 2, 3: noctem pernoctare perpetem,Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 22: cum ibi pernoctaret,Cic. Clu. 13, 37: extra moenia,Liv. 27, 38.—Of things: pro me pernoctet epistula tecum,Ov. H. 18 217: cum salibus, i. e. in pickle (of olives),Pall. 11, 10, 1: lumina pernoctantia,shining all night,Amm. 14, 1, 9.
* Trop.: haec studia pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur,Cic. Arch. 7, 16.

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