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NOON

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 738 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NEW-NUM

NOON , midday, twelve o'

clock

CLOCK

. The O. Eng. non,. Nor. non, Dutch noen, are all from Lat. nowt sc. hora, the ninth hour, i.e. according to the

Roman

ROMAN

system

SYSTEM

, three o'

clock

CLOCK

P.M. (see DAY). The early uses of noon till the 13th and 14th centuries are either as translating the Latin, especially with reference to the 'Crucifixion, or as equivalent to the canonical hour of " pones " (see

BREVIARY

BREVIARY (Lat. breviarium, abridgment, epitome)

). The

ordinary

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

word for twelve o'clock was middeeg, midday, also the equivalent of the canonical hour " sext." Both the

office

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

and the

meal

MEAL

taken about that

time

were shifted to an earlier hour, and by the 14th

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

the

ordinary

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

use of " noon " is that current to-day.
For " nones " (i.e. nonae, sc.

dies

DIES, CHRISTOPH ALBERT (1755-1822)

) in the

Roman

ROMAN

calendar, see CALENDAR.

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