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Twilight: the half-light between day and night

‘Twilight’ joins ‘two’ and ‘light’ to name the half-light between day and night. From Old English twi-lyht, it shares roots with ‘twin’ and ‘lucid’. Its Romance cousin crepusculum gave French ‘crépuscule’ and Italian ‘crepuscolo’. Across Europe, twilight glows through words of dimness, doubling, and fading.

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