Pernocto, pernoctas, pernoctâre. Pomp. To tarie al the night: to lie out of his owne house alnight: to watche, praye, reste, walke, stad, or sleepe al ight.Qui pernoctaret foris. Ter. Which didde roaue abroade all night out of his owne house.Noctem in stramentis pernoctare perpetem.Plaut.To lie al night long in.Pernoctant venatores in niue, in mõtibus vri se patiuntur. Cic.Hunters be abroade al the night in snw.Pernoctare ad ostium carceris. Ci. To lie or watch al night at the prison dore.Pernoctare in publico.Cic.To be al night abroade.Cum curis pernoctare.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
per-nocto, āvi, 1, v. n., to stay all night long, to pass the night (class.). I.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.—II.Trop.: haec studia pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur, Cic. Arch. 7, 16.