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meridionalis
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Latin
Etymology
From merīdiēs (“noon, south”), modeled after septentriōnālis, as if from *merīdiō, -ōnis + -ālis. Later on, Italian indeed brought this hypothetical form to life as meridione.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɛ.riː.di.oːˈnaː.lɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [me.ri.d̪i.oˈnaː.lis]
Adjective
merīdiōnālis (neuter merīdiōnāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- southern
- Synonyms: austrālis, austrīnus, merīdiānus
- Antonyms: boreālis, septentriōnālis
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: meriggionale (rare)
Borrowings:
- → Catalan: meridional
- → English: meridional
- → French: méridional
- → Italian: meridionale, ⇒ meridione
- → Portuguese: meridional
- → Romanian: meridional
- → Spanish: meridional
References
- “meridionalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “meridionalis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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