"Monday" in seven languages

MeaningMonday

Spanish

lunes

/ˈlunes/

masc.inherited

The -s is analogical, copied from martes, miércoles, jueves, viernes.

French

lundi

/lɛ̃di/

masc.inherited

Italian

lunedì

/luneˈdi/

masc.inherited

Portuguese

segunda-feira

/seˈgũdɐ ˈfejɾɐ/

fem.other source · Church Latin FERIA SECUNDA 'second feast day'

Portuguese alone numbers the weekdays as Church Latin did, dropping the pagan gods; in speech just segunda.

Romanian

luni

/lunʲ/

fem.inherited

Catalan

dilluns

/diˈʎuns/

masc.inherited

Catalan puts the 'day' first, like French: DIES LŪNAE.

English

Monday

/ˈmʌndeɪ/

native English · Old English mōnandæg, a calque of Latin LŪNAE DIĒS

English → ItalianMondaylunedìNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: lunar; Monday (Germanic calque of the same 'moon day').What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

LŪNAE DIEM‘the Moon's day’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

Weekdays are lower-case in all three sisters. 'On Monday' needs no preposition: el lunes, lundi, lunedì.

English relatives: lunar; Monday (Germanic calque of the same 'moon day')

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esLos lunes tengo clase de español.
frLe lundi, j'ai cours d'espagnol.
itIl lunedì ho lezione di spagnolo.
ptÀs segundas tenho aula de espanhol.
roLunea am oră de spaniolă.
caEls dilluns tinc classe d'espanyol.
enOn Mondays I have a Spanish class.

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