〈ULU₃〉 šūtu ‘south’
〈צָהֳרַיִם〉 ṣohŏrayim ‘noon’
μεσημβρία
mesēmbria
Greek noun
Last edited: 2025-02-03| Primary meaning | midday |
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| Literal translation | midday |
| Variants | μεσημβρία mesēmbria μεσαμβρίη mesambriē |
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midday temporal expression
Θερμότατος δὲ ἐστὶ ὁ ἥλιος τούτοισι τοῖσι ἀνθρώποισι τὸ ἑωθινόν, οὐ κατά περ τοῖσι ἄλλοισι μεσαμβρίης, ἀλλ᾽ ὑπερτείλας μέχρι οὗ ἀγορῆς διαλύσιος.
‘But the sun is the hottest among those people in the morning, not at midday such as amongst all others, but from when it has completely risen until the moment when the market is closing.’
south cardinal direction
Ἰσημερία δέ ἐστι φθινοπωρινή, ὅταν ὁ ἥλιος ἀπ’ ἄρκτων πρὸς μεσημβρίαν παροδεύων πάλιν ἐπὶ τοῦ ἰσημερινοῦ γένηται κύκλου καὶ ἴσην τὴν ἡμέραν τῇ νυκτερινῇ ποιήσηται.
‘And it is autumnal equinox, when the sun, in passing from north to south, arrives at the celestial equator again and makes the day equal to the night.’
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2025). μεσημβρία (Lemma #1283). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1283/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2025). μεσημβρία (Lemma #1283). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1283/
MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2025). μεσημβρία (Lemma #1283). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1283/
Harvard
Peeters, T. (2025) μεσημβρία (Lemma #1283), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1283/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1283,
note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
author = {Peeters, Thomas},
year = {2025},
title = {μεσημβρία ({Lemma} #1283)},
url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1283/},
howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1283/},
}