meridiem

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A few minutes past four o'clock, ante meridiem, word was brought to them that the Prince had boarded the Berengaria by "swarming up a rope ladder."

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir: In Mexico, it is a common use to interpret p.m. not as post meridiem but rather as puntualidad Mexicana, which means one or two hours after the stated time.

From Time Magazine Archive

March 1st, baptisatus erat Theodoras Dee Trebonæ ante meridiem.

From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by Dee, John

Dec. 14th, Mary Nevelle, alias Mary Lewknor, borne inter 11 et meridiem mane, by Chichester.

From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by Dee, John

The word meridiem itself, why is it not medidiem?

From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Cicero, Marcus Tullius