Meren'da
was a surname, of rare occunrence in the Antonian and Cornelian gentes at Rome. Merenda signifies the mid-day meal (Fest.
m v. p. 123, Muell. ed.;
Non. p. 28, 32; comp. Isidor.
Orig. 20.2.12), and the word, unchanged in form, is extant in the modern Neapolitan dialect. The Merenda branch of the Gens Antonia was patrician (
Dionys. A. R. 10.58) [ANTONIA GENS].