Translation
noon, midday
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Word origin
A native Esperanto compound of tago (day) and mezo (middle), so literally day-middle. Both roots are Romance: Latin dies and medius.
- Origin
- Esperanto compound
- Root
- tago + mezo
- English cognates
- diary, medium
Examples
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We eat at midday.
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The sun is highest at noon.
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Before noon I work at home.
is the textbook compound: read it from the right and the head is , the middle, with telling you the middle of what. builds midnight the same way. Time expressions take , so lunch is , and the adverb means at midday without a preposition at all. The right-to-left reading rule is the subject of the compound words article.
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Word family
Words built on tagmezo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- posttagmezonoun
afternoon
posttagmezo
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 16, lesson 8: tagmezo, nuligi, kazo and 6 more words.