meridies
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From a dissimilation of earlier medīdiēs, derived from medius (“middle”) + diēs (“day”). The sense of 'south' is due to the southward orientation of the sun at noon in the northern hemisphere.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /meˈriː.di.eːs/, [mɛˈriːd̪ieːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /meˈri.di.es/, [meˈriːd̪ies]
Noun edit
merīdiēs m (genitive merīdiēī); fifth declension
Declension edit
Fifth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | merīdiēs | merīdiēs |
Genitive | merīdiēī | merīdiērum |
Dative | merīdiēī | merīdiēbus |
Accusative | merīdiem | merīdiēs |
Ablative | merīdiē | merīdiēbus |
Vocative | merīdiēs | merīdiēs |
Synonyms edit
- (south wind): auster
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of “north wind”): boreās, septentriō
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Descendants edit
References edit
- “meridies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “meridies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- meridies in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- meridies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to lie to the east, west, south, north: spectare in (vergere ad) orientem (solem), occidentem (solem), ad meridiem, in septentriones
- to lie to the east, west, south, north: spectare in (vergere ad) orientem (solem), occidentem (solem), ad meridiem, in septentriones