μεσημβρ-ινός, ή, όν,
for μεσημερινός, Doric dialect μεσαμβρινός, ά, όν, belonging to noon, noontide, εὖτε πόντος ἐν μεσημβριναῖς κοίταις.. εὕδοι πεσών [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 565 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; μεσημβρινοῖσι θάλπεσι in the noonday heats, [[ [prev. author] “Th.” 431, compare 381, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1096; κἂν ἔγρῃ μεσημβρινός [prev. author] “V.” 774, compare “Ach.” 40; μ. δαιμόνιον LXX.Psa.90(91).6 ] LXX+5th c.BC+]; ὁ μ. ᾠδός, of the cicada, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 9.584.11] Refs]; τὸ μεσαμβρινόν at noon, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.15, 10.48, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Anach.” 25 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: without the Article, [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 401 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ὁ μ. κύκλος the meridian, [[ 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra “Phaenomena” p.6 M., 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 2.25: without κύκλος, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 362b11, 375b29, 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 3.1.1, +others, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.1.10, 2nd c.AD: Cleomedes Astronomus 1.8, etc., cf. Theo Sm. p.131 H. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II southern, κέλευθος [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 722; τὰ μεσημβρινά 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.2, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.1.12, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative -ώτερος [[ 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 14.10, Anonymus “Geographiae Expositio Compendiaria” 18] Refs 1st c.BC+]: superlative -ώτατος [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.5.33, etc. [ῐ, but ῑ for the sake of meter, on the analogy of ὀπωρινός, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Lavacrum Palladis” 72, 73, 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 2.17.] ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]