"Morning is before noon."

Translation: Mateno estas antaŭ tagmezo.

[gcgupta]

why would antaŭ ol be wrong here?

[arbaro]

You use "antaŭ" without the ol for nouns and antaŭ ol for entire subphrases.

[gcgupta]

dankon multe !

[adromu]

tagmezo = meztago?

[noureddin95]

tagmezo = mezo de (la) tago = mid of (the) day.

meztago = tago de (la) mezo = day of (the) mid.

[pepefuentest]

I think "tagmezo" is noon and "meztago" is 12 hours (?) (?) (?)

[noureddin95]

I have looked up in PIV, and arrived at these results:

• mez- is used as an adjective in the compound words; e.g, mezetaĝo, mezmuro, meznombro, ktp.
• noktomezo and tagmezo are listed by PIV. The first means "La mezo de la nokto." and "La momento, markita la 24a aŭ la 0a horo.". The second is similar.
• meznokto (but not meztago) was used by Zamenhof to mean "noktomezo", but it's arkaika now.

In general, XYo means Xa Yo, and also Yo de Xo, for any roots X and Y; e.g, punkto de vido = vida punkto = vidpunkto = view-point = point of view.
So, meztago means meza tago = middle day, and tagmezo = taga mezo = day middle = noon.

I hope it helps. :)

[danielqsc]

What's funny is that "antaŭtagmezo" is also a word to refer to the period of the day before noon. http://vortaro.net/#anta%C5%ADtagmezo