# meridional
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French meridional, from Latin merīdiōnālis, from merīdiēs (“noon; south”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɪˈɹɪdɪənəl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Adjective

meridional (not comparable)
* located in the south, southern; later especially, often pertaining to the southern parts of Europe. [from 14th c.]
** 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:Offices that require heat […] should be meridional.
** 2021, Pablo A. Baisotti, A New Struggle for Independence in Modern Latin America, Routledge:For much of the 19th century what we now know as South America was called Meridional America
* of or characteristic of southern areas or people, especially those in the southern parts of Europe [from 19th c.]
** 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 740:This, Constance recognised, may have had nothing to do with the situation – it was probably just a meridional convention – for in the Mediterranean countries nobody trusts his neighbour [...].
** 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 270:As soon as he heard the news of the trial and execution, he summed up the incident as a monument to Catholic intolerance, meridional superstition and judicial bigotry – and he decided to do something about it.
* (astronomy, geography, meteorology) along a north–south direction, or relative to a meridian; or relating to meridians or a meridian [from 15th c.]
    Antonym: zonal

#### Derived terms

* meridional ray
* meridional wind

#### See also

* longitudinal

### Noun

meridional (plural meridionals)
* an inhabitant of a southern region, especially the south of France

### Anagrams

* mineraloid

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin merīdiōnālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [mə.ɾi.ði.uˈnal]
* IPA: (Balearic) [mə.ɾi.ði.oˈnal]
* IPA: (Valencia) [me.ɾi.ði.oˈnal]

### Adjective

meridional m or f (masculine and feminine plural meridionals)
* southern
    Synonyms: del sud, austral

### Noun

meridional m or f by sense (plural meridionals)
* southerner
    Synonym: habitant del sud

#### Related terms

* meridià

#### See also

compass points: punts cardinals:
| nord-oest nord-occidental | nord septentrional | nord-est nord-oriental |
| oest occidental | | est oriental |
| sud-oest sud-occidental | sud meridional | sud-est sud-oriental |

### Further reading

* “meridional” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “meridional”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “meridional” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “meridional” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meridjuˈnal/

### Adjective

meridional
* southern

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin merīdiōnālis.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /me.ɾi.d͡ʒi.oˈnaw/ [me.ɾi.d͡ʒɪ.oˈnaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /me.ɾi.d͡ʒjoˈnaw/ [me.ɾi.d͡ʒjoˈnaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /mɨ.ɾi.djuˈnal/ [mɨ.ɾi.ðjuˈnaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /mɨ.ɾi.djuˈnal/ [mɨ.ɾi.ðjuˈnaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /mɨ.ɾi.djuˈna.li/ [mɨ.ɾi.ðjuˈna.li]

### Adjective

meridional m or f (plural meridionais)
* southern (located in or relating to the south)
    Synonyms: austral, sulista

### Further reading

* “meridional” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French méridional, Latin merīdiōnālis.

### Pronunciation

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### Adjective

meridional m or n (feminine singular meridională, masculine plural meridionali, feminine and neuter plural meridionale)
* southern, meridional
    Synonyms: sudic, austral
    Antonyms: nordic, septentrional, boreal

#### Declension
### Further reading

* meridional in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin merīdiōnālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /meɾidjoˈnal/ [me.ɾi.ð̞joˈnal]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: me‧ri‧dio‧nal

### Adjective

meridional m or f (masculine and feminine plural meridionales)
* southern
    Synonyms: austral, sureño
    Antonyms: septentrional, norteño

#### Related terms

* occidental
* oriental
* septentrional, norteño
* sureño

### Further reading

* “meridional”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Venetan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin merīdiōnālis. Compare Italian meridionale.

### Adjective

meridional (feminine singular meridionala, masculine plural meridionali, feminine plural meridionale)
* southern, south (attributive)
    Antonym: setentrional