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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-415/
- Published: 2021-03-16T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-02-15T17:49:01.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

crepuscular (adjective) –  
1 : of, relating to, or resembling twilight  
2 : occurring or active during twilight

[Source : Online Etymology Dictionary](https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=crepuscular&ref=goodoil.news)

  
Etymology : figurative use, “dim, indistinct,” is attested from 1660s; literal use, “pertaining to or resembling twilight,” from 1755\. From Latin crepusculum “twilight, dusk,”; related to creper “obscure, uncertain,” from Proto-Italic \*krepos “twilight,” which is of uncertain origin. It is not certain whether “twilight” or “obscure” was the original sense; de Vaan writes, “there is no known root of the form \*krep- from which the extant meanings can be derived.” In zoology, “flying or appearing at sunset,”; from 1826.

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