"weekend" in seven languages
Meaningweekend
Spanish
/fin de seˈmana/
masc.inherited
A modern translation of English weekend, built from inherited fin + semana.
French
/wikɛnd/
masc.other source · English weekend
Québec French says fin de semaine.
Italian
/ˈfine setˈtimana/
masc.inherited
The English word weekend is just as common in Italian.
Portuguese
/fĩ dʒi seˈmɐnɐ/
masc.inherited
Romanian
/ˈwikend/
neut.other source · English weekend
Sfârșit de săptămână also exists; săptămână is inherited from SEPTIMĀNA.
Catalan
/kap də sətˈmanə/
masc.inherited
Literally 'head of the week': Catalan cap (CAPUT) also means 'end'.
English
/ˈwikɛnd/
native English · Old English wice 'week' + ende 'end'
The Latin ancestor
SEPTIMĀNAM‘week (a set of seven days, SEPTEM)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
France took the English word whole; Spanish and Italian translated it with their inherited words for 'week', semana and settimana, both from SEPTIMĀNA. Italian assimilated pt to tt, as in sette.
English relatives: September, septet
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In a sentence
- es¿Qué haces este fin de semana?
- frQu'est-ce que tu fais ce week-end ?
- itCosa fai questo fine settimana?
- ptO que você vai fazer neste fim de semana?
- roCe faci weekendul ăsta?
- caQuè fas aquest cap de setmana?
- enWhat are you doing this weekend?
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