noon

The story

1. Latin · derived fromnōna“ninth hour”
2. Old English · inherited fromnōn“the ninth hour”
3. Middle English · inherited fromnoen
4. English todaynoon

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.

Words from the same roots