"Saturday" in seven languages
MeaningSaturday
Spanish
sábado
/ˈsabado/
masc.inherited
French
samedi
/samdi/
masc.inherited
From a Greek-influenced variant *SAMBATI DIEM, with a nasal.
Italian
sabato
/ˈsabato/
masc.inherited
Portuguese
sábado
/ˈsabadu/
masc.inherited
Romanian
sâmbătă
/ˈsɨmbətə/
fem.inherited
From the nasalized spoken form *SAMBATA, like French samedi.
Catalan
dissabte
/diˈsaptə/
masc.inherited
English
Saturday
/ˈsætɚdeɪ/
other source · Old English Sæternesdæg, from Latin SĀTURNĪ DIĒS
English → ItalianSaturdaysabatoNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: Sabbath, sabbatical.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
SABBATUM‘the Sabbath (from Hebrew shabbat, via Greek)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Here the Church won over the planets: Saturn survives in English Saturday, but the sisters keep the Hebrew Sabbath.
English relatives: Sabbath, sabbatical
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In a sentence
- esEl sábado duermo hasta tarde.
- frLe samedi, je fais la grasse matinée.
- itIl sabato dormo fino a tardi.
- ptNo sábado eu durmo até tarde.
- roSâmbătă dorm până târziu.
- caDissabte dormo fins tard.
- enOn Saturday I sleep late.