Nona, The name of one of the three fatall Ladies called Parcæ: the other twoo are Decima and Morta. The Greekes call them, Clotho, Lachefis, and Atropos.
Nonus, Adiectinum numerale. Plin. The ninth.Non nisi nonis mensibus redeunt. Plin. They returne but uery ninth moneth.
Nōnae, ārum, f. [nonus], the fifth day in every month of the year, except March, May, July, and October, in which it was the seventh; the nones, so called because it was the ninth day before the ides, Varr. L. L. 6, 28 Müll.: o Nonae illae Decembres, Cic. Fl. 40, 102: Nonis Februariis si Romae fuit, id. Quint. 18, 57: a. d. tertium Non. Januar. si agere coepisset, id. Fam. 5, 2, 8. After the expulsion of the kings, the marketdays were no longer allowed to fall on the nones, because the people celebrated the nones as the birthday of Servius Tullius, and fear was entertained of a movement on that day in favor of royalty, Macr. S. 1, 13. No wedding took place either on the nones or on the ides, because the following day was a dies ater, unfavorable for the offering to be made by the bride, id. ib. 1, 16. Augustus, for superstitious reasons, avoided undertaking any thing on the nones, Suet. Aug. 92.
nōnus, a, um, adj. ord. [for novenus, from novem], the ninth: terra nona, Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 18: accedes opera agro nona Sabino, Hor. S. 2, 7, 118.—II.Subst.: nōna, ae, f.A. (Sc. hora.) The ninth hour of the day, i. e. the third before sunset, at which hour business was ended at Rome: post nonam venies, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 71; Mart. 4, 8, 5.—B. (Sc. pars.) The ninth part: nonas praedae vovere, Just. 20, 3, 3.—Hence, adv.: nōnō, ninthly, Cassiod. de Anim. 12.