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|lshtext=<b>mĕrīdĭānus</b>: a, um, adj. id.,<br /><b>I</b> of or belonging to [[mid]]-[[day]], [[mid]]-[[day]]-.<br /><b>I</b> (Class.) Tempus, [[mid]]-[[day]], [[noon]], Cic. de Or. 3, 5, 17: sol, Plin. 12, 19, 42, § 86: [[somnus]], id. Ep. 9, 40, 2; Lact. 2, 9, 9.—Hence, as subst.: mĕ-rīdĭāni, sc. gladiatores, [[mid]]-[[day]] combatants, gladiators [[who]] fought at [[mid]]-[[day]], Suet. Claud. 34.—In abl. adv.: mĕrīdĭā-nō, sc. tempore, at [[mid]]-[[day]], Plin. 2, 26, 25, § 96; 9, 8, 8, § 25.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., of or belonging to the [[south]] or [[south]] [[side]], [[southern]], southerly, meridional: [[ager]] spectat ad meridianam caeli partem, Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 1: [[pars]] [[orbis]], opp. [[septentrionalis]], id. ib. 1, 2, 4: [[plaga]], Plin. 2, 11, 8, § 50; Lact. 2, 9: [[orbis]], Plin. 13, 4, 9, § 42: [[circulus]], the equator, Sen. Q. N. 5, 17: [[latus]] tabernaculi, Vulg. Exod. 26, 35.—Subst.: mĕrīdĭānum, i, n., the [[south]], Vell. 2, 126, 3; Vulg. Eccli. 34, 19; id. Act. 8, 26.—mĕrīdĭāna, ōrum, n., [[southern]] places or parts: in meridianis Indiae, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 24.
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