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noun a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano)
originBorrowed from Italian notturno (“nocturnal, nightly”), from Latin nocturnus, from noctū (“by night”), from nox (“night”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Doublet of nocturne.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0