Translation
noon, midday
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 tagmeze 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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