meridian: [14] Etymologically, meridian denotes the ‘middle of the day’. It comes via Old French from Latin merīdiānus, a derivative of merīdiēs ‘mid-day’. This was an alteration of an earlier medidiēs, a compound noun formed from medius ‘middle’ (source of English medium) and diēs ‘day’. The application of the word to a circle passing round the Earth or the celestial sphere, which is an ancient one, comes from the notion of the sun crossing it at noon. => medium
meridian (n.)
mid-14c., "noon," from Old French meridien "of the noon time, midday; the Meridian; southerner" (12c.), and directly from Latin meridianus "of midday, of noon, southerly, to the south," from meridies "noon, south," from meridie "at noon," altered by dissimilation from pre-Latin *medi die, locative of medius "mid-" (see medial (adj.)) + dies "day" (see diurnal). Cartographic sense first recorded late 14c. Figurative uses tend to suggest "point of highest development or fullest power."
The city in Mississippi, U.S., was settled 1854 (as Sowashee Station) at a railway junction and given its current name in 1860, supposedly by people who thought meridian meant "junction" (they perhaps confused the word with median).
实用例句
1. All places on the same meridian have the same longitude.
在同一子午线上的地方都有相同的经度.来自《简明英汉词典》
2. He is now at the meridian of his intellectual power.
他现在正值智力全盛期.来自《简明英汉词典》
3. Meridian shares were recently up 12 per cent at 7.5 c.
Meridian公司 的股票最近上涨了百分之十二,达到了7.5c的股息.来自互联网
4. Only rarely did businesses of Schefenacker's or Meridian's size have to endure long insolvencies.
像雪弗莱克和Meridian那种规模的公司,很少是迫不得已才会遭受长期的破产过程.来自互联网
5. MERIDIAN, Idaho - Banning baseball caps during tests was obvious - students were writing the answers under the brim.
