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meridies

meridies · m

mid-day, noon

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Where it lives

Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 1 · 3.77/10k
Mostellaria 3 · 3.12/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
De Architectura 9 · 1.56/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Adelphi 1 · 1.01/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 1 · 0.96/10k
Naturalis Historia 36 · 0.91/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
De bello Gallico 3 · 0.58/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. mĕrīdĭes — Lewis & Short

mĕrīdĭes, ēi, m. (f. ap.

Amm. 26, 1, 9) [for medidies from medius-dies],

I mid-day, noon.

I Lit.: meridies ab eo, quod medius dies, Varr. L. L. 6, § 4 Müll.: ipsum meridiem cur non medidiem? credo, quod erat insuavius, Cic. Or. 47, 158; Quint. 1, 6, 30; Prisc. p. 551 P.: circiter meridiem, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 52: ante meridiem, post meridiem, Cic. Tusc. 2, 3, 9: diem diffindere insiticio somno meridie, to take a nap at noon, Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 5: inclamare horam esse tertiam, itemque meridiem, Varr. L. L. 6, § 89 Müll.—

II Transf.

A The south: inflectens sol cursum tum ad septentriones, tum ad meridiem, Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49: a meridie Aegyptus objacet, ab occasu Phoenices, Tac. H. 5, 6.—

B In gen., the middle of a given time (ante- and postclass.): noctis circiter meridiem, Varr. ap. Non. 451, 9: actatis, Non. ib. 14.

2. meridiés — Walde–Hofmann

meridiés, -2 m. (sek. f. seit Amm., Phil. 93, 270) „Mittag, Mittagszeit; Mittagsgegend, Mitte“ (seit XII tab., rom., ebenso meridianus (Subst. -a, sc. hora „Mittagszeit“] „mittäglich“ seit Varro [nach ante-, postmeridianus. seit Cic., Leumann-Stolz* 224] und meridió, -are (-or, -äri] „Mittagsruhe halten“ seit Catull. ; vgl. noch meridiälis „mittäglich* seit Gell. [medialis Paul. Fest., s. u.], meridiätiö … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. meridiés, p. 983]

In the wild

meridie Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5.6.22
meridie Vitruvius, De Architectura 1.6.13
meridie Vitruvius, De Architectura 6.6.3
meridie Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.77
meridie Martial, Epigrammata 4.61.12
meridie Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.59.p1

6 of 85 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. meridiés (scan pp. 423-424; entry #6795).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. meridiés (scan p. 983; entry #1756). Root candidates: *medjei-.

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