The corpus record — Latin

meridio

meridio · v. n

to take a mid-day nap

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Where it lives

Cimon 1 · 18.66/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Probus 1 · 2.43/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 14 · 1.78/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
De Architectura 8 · 1.39/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Naturalis Historia 50 · 1.26/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 3 · 1.14/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mĕrīdĭo — Lewis & Short

mĕrīdĭo, 1, v. n., and mĕrīdĭor, 1, v. dep.meridies,

I to take a mid-day nap or siesta: jube, ad te veniam meridiatum, Cat. 32, 3: meridiari ante cibum, Cels. 1, 2: dum ea meridiaret, Suet. Calig. 38: inter acervos eorum meridiati sunt, i. e. have taken their ease, Vulg. Job, 24, 11.

Where it came from

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