morning
The morning is a time of day that lies between morning and noon . Its duration is not precisely determined.
In ancient times , the duration of the times of day was precisely defined. The morning was the second quarter of light day; Both the night and the day were divided into twelve temporal hours each , the length of which changed over the course of the year. The morning comprised the period from the beginning of the fourth to the end of the sixth hour of the day and ended at noon. In ancient Rome , the four stages of the day, and thus also the beginning and end of the morning (in Latin ad meridiem ), were publicly proclaimed by officials of the consuls. The prayer of the hours of the church adopted the ancient division of the day with the designation of the times of the prim , third , sixth and non , which were prayed at the first, third, sixth and ninth hour of the ancient division of the day.
After the unchangeable hours became established in everyday life in the late Middle Ages , the ancient division of days lost its meaning. Occasionally, morning was also used as an official term, then for the time from midnight to noon. In the 18th century, the period from around 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. was given as the definition of morning, Pierer's Lexicon of 1864 notes that it is "... specifically the last hours before noon."
The German word “morning” is only used in the late Middle Ages. The Middle High German initially knew only the word "tomorrow" for the entire period from dawn until lunchtime. As a division of the long period of time, the term "middle mogen" used (occupied in 1200), which in the late Middle High German by "before noon" and in High German by the use today compound was replaced "morning". However, the exact ancient determination was not adopted; the term only approximated the period from first breakfast to lunch .
The morning is typical working time . Social events that usually take place in the morning are the Sunday morning pint and the matinee . The morning can be found as a literary topic, for example, with Schiller (Körner's morning), Luise Mühlbach (A morning in Sanssouci), Carl Jacob Burckhardt (A morning at a bookseller) or Martin Walser (a writer's morning). Clint Eastwood addressed the time of day in his 1973 film Morning Meeting .
The phrase a good morning is followed by a bad afternoon means that good times are often followed by bad ones.
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- ↑ Wolfgang Trapp : Small manual of the dimensions, numbers, weights and the time calculation. Philipp Reclam, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-89836-198-5 , p. 53.
- ↑ Dietmar Wünschmann: The times of day. Your name in German . NG Elwert Verlag Marburg, 1966, p. 17 ff.
- ↑ Dietmar Wünschmann: The times of day. Your name in German. NG Elwert Verlag Marburg, 1966, pp. 100-105.
- ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Adelung-1793/A/Vormitt,+der?hl=vorminister
- ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Pierer-1857/A/Vormittung
- ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Wander-1867/A/Vorchi ? Hl = morning
