Gender: All 5th declension nouns are feminine, except dies, and compounds of dies, which are masculine. Dies, however, can also be feminine when it refers to a specific day: constitūtā diē, on the appointed day. Of nouns of the fifth declension, only dies and res are declined fully.

Fourth declension nouns These are. usually masculine and end ‘-us’ in the nominative singular. sometimes feminine and end ‘-us’ in the nominative singular. occasionally neuter and end ‘-u’ in the nominative singular. always ended with ‘-us’ in the genitive singular.

Fourth declension also includes a very few neuter nouns. Here are the endings for the neuter:- u, -us, -u, -u, -u (I just love saying those); -ua, -uum, -ibus, -ua, -ibus.

Fourth conjugation verbs

The word dies is a fifth declension noun and as such is regarded to be feminine. In the order of nominative, accusative, genitive, dative then abalative cases in the singular form, dies declines as follows: dies, diem, diei, diei, die.

N M noon; midday; south.

Fifth-declension noun.

Ante Meridian is a misspelling of: Antimeridian, a meridian at 180° from another or the meridian opposite the prime meridian. Ante meridiem, normally abbreviated a.m., Latin for “before midday”

The abbreviation am stands for ante-meridiem (before the Sun has crossed the meridian line), and pm stands for post-meridiem (after the Sun has crossed the meridian line).

: being before noon —abbreviation AM, a.m., or (British) am.

Standard dictionaries agree that the full phrase is uncommon. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.), for example, says “ante meridiem” is “used chiefly in the abbreviated form to specify the hour: 10:30 AM.”

ante meridiem

The Prime Meridian is an arbitrary place where we start counting the longitudes as east and west of that place. Today, it is accepted international as the meridian of the Royal Observatory of Greenwich near London, England. Post Meridiem, often written simply as PM, means, after noon, in Latin.

The Antimeridian is the +180°/-180° line of longitude, exactly opposite the Prime Meridian (0°). It is often used as the basis for the International Date Line (IDL) because it passes through the open waters of the Pacific Ocean.

The term meridian comes from the Latin meridies, meaning “midday”; the subsolar point passes through a given meridian at solar noon, midway between the times of sunrise and sunset on that meridian. Likewise, the Sun crosses the celestial meridian at the same time.

You appear to be confusing anti-meridian, the 180° meridian, which is opposite the prime meridian, and ante meridiem, which is abbreviated AM and is Latin for before midday. Post meridiem (not meridian), abbreviated PM, is Latin for after midday.

The 12-hour clock can be traced back as far as Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. Both an Egyptian sundial for daytime use and an Egyptian water clock for night-time use were found in the tomb of Pharaoh Amenhotep I.

Download coordinates as: KML The 180th meridian or antimeridian is the meridian 180° both east and west of the Prime Meridian, with which it forms a great circle dividing the earth into the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. It is common to both east longitude and west longitude.

The abbreviation a.m. for Latin ante merīdiem, meaning “before noon,” refers to the period from midnight until noon. Expressions combining a.m. with morning ( 6 a.m. in the morning ) and p.m. with afternoon, evening, or night ( 9 p.m. at night ) are redundant and occur most often in casual speech and writing.

As for time of day, my dialect has two sets of word. One refers to the clock and one refers to the sky. The set of words that refers to the clock is: midnight (exactly 12:00 am), morning (from 12:01 am to 11:59 am), noon (exactly 12:00 pm), afternoon (from 12:01 pm to 6:00 pm), evening (from 6:00 pm to 11:59 pm).

Afternoon: noon-6 p.m. Early afternoon: noon-3 p.m. Late- afternoon: 3-6 p.m. Evening: 6-9 p.m.

It is possibly from an Indo-European root meaning to twinkle , as in the dawn. The word forenoon was created later to mean the part of the morning that is in daylight. This is strange because that is the part of ‘greater’ morning which is more particularly called morning, the earlier part being called night.