## Etymology
A compound of noon (Old English non, from Latin nona hora 'ninth hour') + tide (Old English tid 'time, season'), from Proto-Germanic *tidiz.

## AI Etymology
Noontide is a compound of noon (Old English non, from Latin nona hora 'ninth hour') + tide (Old English tid 'time, season'), from Proto-Germanic *tidiz. The etymological trail includes Latin nona hora and Old English tid. As a noun, noontide means the time of noon; midday (literary). The same family is visible in related forms such as noon, noonday, and tide. Morphologically, the word is built from the elements named in its history, so the modern form preserves a visible compound, prefix, or suffix structure.

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