meridiem
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.13 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Quantities and frequencies are distributed as follows (neglecting the meridiem hour):[…]"
- "The same female number 1 introduced inside the ice-box at 9 a.m., to 9:15 was in lethargy, pick up and put it inside the stove to 350 degrees, to 12 meridiem, was in excellent conditions."
- "I wrote that the habit of schedulers in the railroad business of skipping the meridiem (they go from 11:59 a.m. to 12:01 p.m. in a split second) “. . . begs the question of what to designate the mass transit of the meridiem.”"
- "But when the sky had brightened for the meridiem—the two to three hours of dull yet hazardous sunlight that filtered through the thick cloud cover each planetary rotation—she’d had to retire underground, losing time."
- "From prior to first light to the meridiem – yes, that means noon – the activities around Leelanau are as varied as the people who call it home:"
- "The terminal responds N HH MM CR where N, HH, and MM are the meridiem, hour, and minutes, as above."
Etymology
Back-formation from the phrases ante meridiem and post meridiem (more commonly a.m. and p.m.), from Latin merīdiem, accusative of merīdiēs (“midday, noon”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: merīdiem