meridies

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.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /meˈriː.di.eːs/, [mɛˈriːd̪ieːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /meˈri.di.es/, [meˈriːd̪ies]

merīdiēs m (genitive merīdiēī); fifth declension

1. midday, noon
2. south

Fifth-declension noun.

• (south wind): auster

• (antonym(s) of “north wind”): boreās, septentriō

• diēs
• merīdiē
• medīdiē

• “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lie to the east, west, south, north: spectare in (vergere ad) orientem (solem), occidentem (solem), ad meridiem, in septentriones