meridionalis
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɛ.riː.di.oːˈnaː.lɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [me.ri.di.oˈnaː.lis]
Adjective
[edit]merīdiōnālis (neuter merīdiōnāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- southern
- Synonyms: austrālis, austrīnus, merīdiānus
- Antonyms: boreālis, septentriōnālis
Declension
[edit]Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | merīdiōnālis | merīdiōnāle | merīdiōnālēs | merīdiōnālia | |
| genitive | merīdiōnālis | merīdiōnālium | |||
| dative | merīdiōnālī | merīdiōnālibus | |||
| accusative | merīdiōnālem | merīdiōnāle | merīdiōnālīs merīdiōnālēs |
merīdiōnālia | |
| ablative | merīdiōnālī | merīdiōnālibus | |||
| vocative | merīdiōnālis | merīdiōnāle | merīdiōnālēs | merīdiōnālia | |
Descendants
[edit]- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: meriggionale (rare)
Borrowings:
- → Catalan: meridional
- → English: meridional
- → French: méridional
- → Italian: meridionale, ⇒ meridione
- → Portuguese: meridional
- → Romanian: meridional
- → Spanish: meridional
References
[edit]- “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.