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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

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. In some other languages, the days are named after corresponding deities of the regional culture, beginning either with Sunday or with

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. The seven-day week was adopted in early Christianity from the

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, and gradually replaced the Roman nundinal cycle as the new religion spread. Sunday remained the first day of the week, being considered the

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, while the Jewish sabbath remained the seventh. Emperor Constantine adopted the seven-day week for official use in AD 321, making the

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, Monday is treated as the first day of the week.

Days named after planets

Greco-Roman tradition

Between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, the

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gradually replaced the eight-day Roman nundinal cycle with the seven-day week. The earliest evidence for this new system is a Pompeiian graffito referring to 6 February (''ante diem viii idus Februarias'') of the year

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as ''dies solis'' ("Sunday"). Another early witness is a reference to a lost treatise by

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, written in about AD 100, which addressed the question of: "Why are the days named after the planets reckoned in a different order from the 'actual' order?". (The treatise is lost, but the answer to the question is known; see planetary hours). The

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of planetary spheres asserts that the order of the heavenly bodies, from the farthest to the closest to the Earth is: Saturn,

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Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Roman god of war. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin at ...

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, Mercury,

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, or, objectively, the planets are ordered from slowest to fastest moving as they appear in the night sky. The days were named after the planets of Hellenistic astrology, in the order: Sun, Moon, Mars (''Ares''), Mercury (''Hermes''), Jupiter (''Zeus''), Venus (''Aphrodite'') and Saturn (''Cronos''). The seven-day week spread throughout the

. By the 4th century, it was in wide use throughout the Empire. The Greek and Latin names are as follows:

Romance languages

Except for Modern Portuguese and Mirandese, the Romance languages preserved the Latin names, except for the names of Sunday, which was replaced by '' iesDominicus (Dominica)'', i.e. "the

", and of Saturday, which was named for the Sabbath. Mirandese and Modern Portuguese use numbered weekdays (see below), but retain ''sábado'' and ''demingo''/''domingo'' for weekends.

Celtic languages

Early

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adopted the names from Latin, but introduced separate terms of Norse origin for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, then later supplanted these with terms relating to church fasting practices.

Adoptions from Romance

Albanian adopted the Latin terms for Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, adopted translations of the Latin terms for Sunday and Monday, and kept native terms for Thursday and Friday. Other languages adopted the week together with the Latin (Romance) names for the days of the week in the colonial period. Several constructed languages also adopted the Latin terminology. With the exception of ''sabato'', the Esperanto names are all from French, cf. French ''dimanche, lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi''.

Germanic tradition

The

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adapted the system introduced by the Romans by substituting the

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for the Roman ones (with the exception of ''Saturday'') in a process known as . The date of the introduction of this system is not known exactly, but it must have happened later than AD 200 but before the introduction of Christianity during the 6th to 7th centuries, i.e., during the final phase or soon after the collapse of the

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stage, but still during the phase of undifferentiated

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. The names of the days of the week in

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were not

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d from Latin directly, but taken from the West Germanic names. * Sunday: Old English (), meaning "sun's day". This is a translation of the Latin phrase . English, like most of the

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, preserves the day's association with the sun. Many other European languages, including all of the

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, have changed its name to the equivalent of "the Lord's day" (based on Ecclesiastical Latin ). In both West Germanic and North Germanic mythology, the Sun is personified as Sunna/Sól. *

: Old English (), meaning "Moon's day". This is equivalent to the Latin name . In North Germanic mythology, the Moon is personified as Máni. *

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: Old English (), meaning "Tiw's day". Tiw (Norse ) was a one-handed god associated with single combat and pledges in Norse mythology and also attested prominently in wider

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. The name of the day is also related to the Latin name , "Day of

" (the Roman god of war). *

Wednesday Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. According to international standard ISO 8601, it is the third day of the week. In countries which have Friday as their holiday, Wednesday is the fifth day of the week. In countrie ...

: Old English () meaning the day of the Germanic god

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(known as

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among the North Germanic peoples), and a prominent god of the Anglo-Saxons (and other Germanic peoples) in England until about the seventh century. This corresponds to the Latin counterpart , "Day of Mercury", as both are deities of magic and knowledge. The German ''Mittwoch'', the Low German , the ''miðviku-'' in Icelandic and the Finnish all mean "mid-week". *

Thursday Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. According to the ISO 8601 international standard, it is the fourth day of the week. In countries which adopt the "Sunday-first" convention, it is the fifth day of the week. Name ''Se ...

: Old English (), meaning ''s day'. means

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or its personification, the Norse god known in Modern English as

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. Similarly Dutch , German ('thunder's day'), Finnish , and Scandinavian ('Thor's day'). "Thor's day" corresponds to Latin , "day of

" (the Roman god of thunder). *

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: Old English (), meaning the day of the Anglo-Saxon goddess . The Norse name for the planet Venus was , '

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's star'. It is based on the Latin , "Day of

". *

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: named after the Roman god Saturn associated with the Titan Cronus, father of Zeus and many Olympians. Its original Anglo-Saxon rendering was (). In Latin, it was , "Day of Saturn". The Nordic ''laugardagur'', ''leygardagur'', ''laurdag'', etc. deviate significantly as they have no reference to either the Norse or the Roman pantheon; they derive from Old Nordic , literally "washing-day". The German (mainly used in northern and eastern Germany) and the Low German mean "Sunday Eve"; the German word derives from the name for Shabbat.

Adoptions from Germanic

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uses the concept of days under the regency of a planet under the term ''vāsara'', the days of the week being called '' āditya-, soma-, maṅgala-,

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-, guru-, śukra-,'' and '' śani-vāsara''. ''śukrá'' is a name of Venus (regarded as a son of Bhṛgu); ''

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, and hence of Jupiter; ''budha'' "Mercury" is regarded as a son of ''Soma'', i.e. the Moon. Knowledge of Greek astrology existed since about the 2nd century BC, but references to the ''vāsara'' occur somewhat later, during the

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'', c. 3rd to 5th century), i.e. at roughly the same period or before the system was introduced in the Roman Empire.

In languages of the Indian subcontinent

Southeast Asian languages

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n tradition also uses the Hindu names of the days of the week.

adopted the concept of days under the regency of a planet under the term ''vāra'', the days of the week being called '' āditya-, soma-, maṅgala-,

-, guru-, śukra-,'' and '' śani-vāra''. ''śukrá'' is a name of Venus (regarded as a son of Bhṛgu); ''

'' is here a title of

, and hence of Jupiter; ''budha'' "Mercury" is regarded as a son of ''Soma'', i.e. the Moon.

Northeast Asian languages

East Asian tradition

The East Asian naming system for the days of the week closely parallels that of the Latin system and is ordered after the "Seven Luminaries" (七曜 ''qī yào''), which consists of the Sun, Moon and the five planets visible to the naked eye. The Chinese had apparently adopted the seven-day week from the Hellenistic system by the 4th century, although by which route is not entirely clear. It was again transmitted to China in the 8th century by Manichaeans, via the country of Kang (a Central Asian polity near Samarkand). The 4th-century date, according to the ''

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) is documented with the writings of the Chinese Buddhist monk Yijing and the Ceylonese Buddhist monk Bu Kong. The Chinese transliteration of the planetary system was soon brought to Japan by the Japanese monk Kobo Daishi; surviving diaries of the Japanese statesman

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Numbered days of the week

Days numbered from Monday

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(except Finnish and partially Estonian and Võro) adopted numbering but took Monday rather than Sunday as the "first day". This convention is also found in some Austronesian languages whose speakers were converted to Christianity by European missionaries. In Slavic languages, some of the names correspond to numerals after Sunday: compare Russian ''vtornik'' () "Tuesday" and ''vtoroj'' () "the second", ''chetverg'' () "Thursday" and ''chetvjortyj'' () "the fourth", ''pyatnitsa'' () "Friday" and ''pyatyj'' () "the fifth"; see also

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. In Standard Chinese, the week is referred to as the "Stellar Period" () or "Cycle" (). The modern Chinese names for the days of the week are based on a simple numerical sequence. The word for "week" is followed by a number indicating the day: "Monday" is literally the "Stellar Period One"/"Cycle One", i.e. the "First day of the Stellar Period/Cycle", etc. The exception is Sunday, where 日 (''rì''), "day" or "Sun", is used instead of a number. A slightly informal and colloquial variant to 日 is 天 (''tiān'') "day", "sky" or "heaven". Accordingly, the notational abbreviation of the days of the week uses the numbers, e.g. 一 for "M" or "Mon(.)", "Monday". Note that the abbreviation of Sunday uses exclusively 日 and not 天. Attempted usage of 天 as such will not be understood. Colloquially, the week is also known as the "Prayer" (), with the names of the days of the week formed accordingly. The following is a table of the Mandarin names of the days of the weeks. Note that standard Taiwan Mandarin pronounces 期 as ''qí'', so 星期 is instead ''xīngqí''. While all varieties of Mandarin may pronounce 星期 as ''xīngqi'' and 禮拜/礼拜 as ''lǐbai'', the second syllable with the neutral tone, this is not reflected in the table either for legibility. Several Sinitic languages refer to Saturday as 週末 "end of the week" and Sunday as 禮拜. Examples include Shenyang Mandarin, Hanyuan Sichuanese Mandarin,

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. Some Hakka varieties in Taiwan still use the traditional Luminaries.

Days numbered from Sunday

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rested from six-day Creation, making the day following the Sabbath the first day of the week (corresponding to Sunday). Seventh-day Sabbaths were sanctified for celebration and rest. After the week was adopted in early Christianity, Sunday remained the first day of the week, but also gradually displaced Saturday as the day of celebration and rest, being considered the

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in which the names of the days come from numbers rather than planetary names. Members of the

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, but otherwise the names correspond to those of English.

Days numbered from Saturday

In Swahili, the day begins at sunrise, unlike in the Arabic and Hebrew calendars where the day starts at sunset (therefore an offset of twelve hours on average), and unlike in the Western world where the day starts at midnight (therefore an offset of six hours on average). Saturday is therefore the first day of the week, as it is the day that includes the first night of the week in Arabic. Etymologically speaking, Swahili has two "fifth" days. The words for Saturday through Wednesday contain the Bantu-derived Swahili words for "one" through "five". The word for Thursday, ''Alhamisi'', is of Arabic origin and means "the fifth" (day). The word for Friday, ''Ijumaa'', is also Arabic and means (day of) "gathering" for the Friday noon prayers in Islam.

Mixing of numbering and astronomy

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Proto-Slavic Proto-Slavic (abbreviated PSl., PS.; also called Common Slavic or Common Slavonic) is the unattested, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages. It represents Slavic speech approximately from the 2nd millennium B.C. through the 6th ...

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Wednesday

Mid-week ''or'' Middle The First Fast (

) Third day of the week

Thursday

The day between two fasts (''An Dé idir dhá aoin'', contracted to ''An Déardaoin'') (

) Five (Arabic) Fifth day of the week. Fourth day of the week.

Friday

The Fast (Celtic) or Fasting Day (Icelandic) (

) Good Friday or Preparation (

)

Jumu'ah In Islam, Friday prayer or Congregational prayer ( ar, صَلَاة ٱلْجُمُعَة, ') is a prayer ('' ṣalāt'') that Muslims hold every Friday, after noon instead of the Zuhr prayer. Muslims ordinarily pray five times each day accordin ...

(Friday Prayer) Jumu'ah, Gathering/Assembly/Meeting (Islam) – in Malta with no Islamic connotations Fifth day of the week Borrowed from Germanic languages Or canàbara, cenàbara, cenàbera, cenàbura, cenarba, chenàbara, chenabra, chenapra, chenàpura, chenarpa, chenàura, cianàbara, chenabura; meaning holy supper as preparation to the sabbathday(Saturday)

Saturday

'' Shabbat'' (Sabbath, Jewish and Christian Sabbath) Wash ''or'' Bath day Sun-eve (Eve of Sunday) After the Jumu'ah, Gathering (Islam) End of the Week (

'rest') Week Half good day Half day