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Monday
Monday is the day of the week that takes place between Sunday and Tuesday. According to the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 8601 standard, it is the first day of the week. Names The names of the day of the week were coined in the Roman Empire, Roman era, in Greek language, Greek and Latin, in the case of Monday as ἡμέρᾱ Selene, Σελήνης, ''diēs Lūnae'' "day of the Moon". Many languages use either terms directly derived from these names or loan translations based on them. The English noun ''Monday'' derived sometime before 1200 from ''monedæi'', which itself developed from Old English (around 1000) ''mōnandæg'' and ''mōndæg'' (literally meaning "moon's day"), which has cognates in other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian ''mōnadeig'', Middle Low German and Middle Dutch ''mānendag, mānendach'' (modern Dutch language, Dutch ''Maandag''), Old High German ''mānetag'' (modern German language, German ''Montag''), and Old Norse '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Day Of The Week
In a vast number of languages, the names given to the seven days of the week are derived from the names of the classical planets in Hellenistic astronomy, which were in turn named after contemporary deities, a system introduced by the Sumerians and later adopted by the Babylonians from whom the Roman Empire adopted the system during late antiquity. In some other languages, the days are named after corresponding deities of the regional culture, beginning either with Sunday or with Monday. The seven-day week was adopted in early Christianity from the Hebrew calendar, and gradually replaced the Roman internundinum. Sunday remained the first day of the week, being considered the day of the sun god Sol Invictus and the Lord's Day, while the Jewish Sabbath remained the seventh. The Babylonians invented the actual seven-day week in 600 BCE, with Emperor Constantine making the Day of the Sun (, "Sunday") a legal holiday centuries later. In the international standard ISO 86 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
