meridies
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom 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 Latin) IPA(key): /meˈriː.di.eːs/, [mɛˈriːd̪ieːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /meˈri.di.es/, [meˈriːd̪ies]
Noun
editmerīdiēs m (genitive merīdiēī); fifth declension
Declension
editFifth-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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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
Derived terms
editDerived terms
Related terms
editDescendants
editReferences
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
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dyew-
- Latin 4-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin fifth declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the fifth declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
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