Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To relax or sleep around midday.
The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon. · The mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks. · The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight. · The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English nōn (“the ninth hour”), from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin nōna (“ninth hour”) (short for nōna hōra), feminine of nōnus (“ninth”). Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.
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