meridianus
Latin
Etymology
From merīdiēs (“midday”) + -ānus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /me.riː.diˈaː.nus/, [mɛriːd̪iˈäːnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /me.ri.diˈa.nus/, [merid̪iˈäːnus]
Adjective
merīdiānus (feminine merīdiāna, neuter merīdiānum); first/second-declension adjective
- (relational) midday, noon
- southern
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | merīdiānus | merīdiāna | merīdiānum | merīdiānī | merīdiānae | merīdiāna | |
| Genitive | merīdiānī | merīdiānae | merīdiānī | merīdiānōrum | merīdiānārum | merīdiānōrum | |
| Dative | merīdiānō | merīdiānō | merīdiānīs | ||||
| Accusative | merīdiānum | merīdiānam | merīdiānum | merīdiānōs | merīdiānās | merīdiāna | |
| Ablative | merīdiānō | merīdiānā | merīdiānō | merīdiānīs | |||
| Vocative | merīdiāne | merīdiāna | merīdiānum | merīdiānī | merīdiānae | merīdiāna | |
Derived terms
- Carolīna Merīdiāna
Descendants
- Catalan: meridià
- English: meridian
- French: méridien
- Italian: meridiano
- Portuguese: meridiano
- Romanian: meridian
- Spanish: meridiano
References
- “meridianus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “meridianus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- meridianus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum
- morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum