Forenoon

The morning is a time of day which is between morning and noon. It has not been accurately determined.

In ancient times, the duration of the times of the day was exactly determined. The morning was the second quarter of the light day; both the night and the day was divided into twelve temporal hours, the length of which changed during the year. The morning session covered the period from the beginning of the fourth to the end of the sixth hour of the day and ended with the lunch time. In ancient Rome, the four day parts, and thus the beginning and end of the morning ( in Latin ad meridiem ), proclaimed publicly by official servants of the consuls. The Middle Ages took over the ancient division of the day in the Christian Prayer Times: The vormittägliche prayer was the third, whose beginning was announced to the faithful by the ringing of church bells. After have enforced the steady hours in everyday life in the late Middle Ages, the ancient division of the day lost its importance. Occasionally morning was also used as an official term, then for the period from midnight until noon. In the 18th century, the period from about 10:00 clock bis 12:00 clock was given as a definition of the morning, Pierers lexicon of 1864 remarks, it was " ... especially the last few hours first before lunchtime. "

The German word " morning " is occupied only in the late Middle Ages. The Middle High German first knew only the word "tomorrow" for the entire period from dawn until noon. As a subdivision of the long period of time, the term " middle mogen " used ( occupied in 1200 ), which was replaced by " before noon " and in High German by the now common compound " morning " in the late Middle High German. The exact antique determination was not included; it designated only about the period from the first breakfast to lunch.

The morning is typical working hours. Social cause, which usually takes place in the morning, are the Sunday brunch and matinee. As a literary theme be found the morning for example, Schiller ( Körner morning), Luise Mühlbach ( A morning at Sanssouci ), Carl Jacob Burckhardt ( A morning at the bookstore ) or Martin Walser (morning of a writer ). Clint Eastwood theme the time of day in his film meeting the morning of 1973.

The phrase on a good morning following a bad afternoon wishes to say, follow that good times are often poor.