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  • And of course, a.m. stands for ante meridian meridiem, which is Latin for "before midday."

    azcentral.com | news 2010

  • Monday at eight in the ante meridiem, we will meet at the office and ride a motor carriage out to Long Island, where a household has taken ill with the disease.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • Monday at eight in the ante meridiem, we will meet at the office and ride a motor carriage out to Long Island, where a household has taken ill with the disease.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • Yes, 5:30 ante meridiem that's a.m. in case you didn't know.

    Cassidy Hopkins: My SAT Experience: The Good, the Bad, and the Annoying Cassidy Hopkins 2011

  • Monday at eight in the ante meridiem, we will meet at the office and ride a motor carriage out to Long Island, where a household has taken ill with the disease.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • Yes, 5:30 ante meridiem that's a.m. in case you didn't know.

    Cassidy Hopkins: My SAT Experience: The Good, the Bad, and the Annoying Cassidy Hopkins 2011

  • Monday at eight in the ante meridiem, we will meet at the office and ride a motor carriage out to Long Island, where a household has taken ill with the disease.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • Monday at eight in the ante meridiem, we will meet at the office and ride a motor carriage out to Long Island, where a household has taken ill with the disease.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • And PM does not stand for post-meridian, but for post-meridiem, which means after the middle of the day, and has nothing to do with meridians.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » L.A. Halloween Silly String Ban 2009

  • Quinquies in die orare Turcae tenentur ad meridiem.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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  • Why do we use ante meridiem to denote time before noon and post meridiem to denote after noon yet never use meridiem for noon itself?

    February 7, 2008

  • Nescio.

    (Presumably the nominative is meridies, though.)

    February 8, 2008