Middle English Dictionary Entry
nōnes n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | nōnes n.(2) Also nonas, nonus. |
| Etymology | L nōnæ & nōnas & OF nones. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. non n.
1.
The ninth day, numbered inclusively, before the ides of the month; either the fifth or the seventh day of the month; the nones; the fifte (thridde, etc.) ~, the fifth (third, etc.) day before the nones.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)119a/a : Þe caniculer dayes biginnyth in þe fiftenþe kalendis of august and endiþ in þe nonis [L nonas] of septembris, and so þey ben euene fifty as it is seide þere.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)125b/b : Herof we haue þre diuersitees of dayes: Kalendis ordeyned to halewinge, nonus i-ordeyned to chaffare and idus i-ordeyned to departe & passe home fro feires.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.1031 : Weet, cold, & lenesse, sondy lond is best ffor hem, and they beth ripe at Iules nonys [L gloss.: nonas].
- 1448 *Glo.Chron.C (Arms 58:Kooper)f.122v : I-wrete is the chartre the yere of Oure Lordes Incarnacion the DCCC xliiijo, the iiij indiccion, the nones of Nouembre in the citee of Wente that is Wynchestre in the churche of Petur and Paule tofor the chief auter.
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)6926 : Þe next day it halowed was Before septembre nonas.
- ?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)7861 : William..was..In Ianuer, þe thrid nonas, Sakird in saint Iohn otas Of Archebischop of ȝorke, thomas.
- (1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)141/33 : He deyid..þe day be-for þe nonas of Februari.
- c1453(c1437) Brut-1436 (Hrl 53)561/9 : At þe vte nonas of August..þe Kyng of Fraunce, þe Quene, þe Duyk of Burgoyn, nor non of hem, come.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)575/13 : The date at Viter[b]e, the nonys of may, of his Bisshophode the xj yere.
2.
(a) The fifth canonical hour, set for the ninth hour of the day (3 p.m.); ~ tide; (b) noon; a noon meal; ~ stounde
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1430 ?Hoccl.Poems PS Compl.Virg.(Hnt HM 111)135 : O sonne..Þat seest my child nakid this nones tyde.
b
- c1300 SLeg.Mich.(LdMisc 108)403 : Þe sonne..is euene a-boue þin heued riȝt atþe nones stounde.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)5.378 : I haue..ouer-seye me at my sopere and some tyme at nones.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)6.147 : Ancres and heremytes..eten but at nones.