merendo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

mĕrendo, 1, v. n. [1. merenda],

to take an afternoon luncheon (late Lat.): merenda est cibus, qui declinante die sumitur, quasi post meridiem edenda: Hinc merendare, quasi meridie edere, Isid. Orig. 20, 2, 12.