Weekdays in Latin?

Mikko Silvonen

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Nov 2, 1992, 8:00:10 AM11/2/92

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A friend of a friend of mine has a customizable calendar application in
his computer, and he would like to use Latin month and weekday names in
it. Unfortunately, weekday names were not used in the ancient Roman
calendar and cannot be found in any Finnish-Latin dictionary.

So, does anyone out there know the weekday names in Latin? Or should I
send e-mail to the Holy See? :-)

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Daniel Chung

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Nov 3, 1992, 2:55:27 PM11/3/92

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C^u ne estas miriga, ke la tuta mondo uzas la saman planon de
"semajnoj"? Mi pensas, ke la "semajno" estas pli populara kaj grava ol la
Romaj monatoj, C^inaj monatoj, kaj ec^ miaj "ekvinoksaj monatoj".

Is it not wonderful that the whole world use the same schedule of
"weeks"? I think that the "week" is more popular and more important than
Roman months, Chinese months, or even my "equinoxal months".

Tiel, Latin-lingvo kaj C^in-lingvo, diferencas per unu. En C^in-lingvo,
ni uzas "stelperiodo suno" por dimanc^o, kaj "stelperiodo unu" g^is "ses" por
la aliaj tagoj de la semajno.

Then Latin and Chinese miss by one. In Chinese, we use "star period
sun" for Sunday (alternatively "star period day" or "worship sun" or "worship
day") and use "star period one" to "six" for the rest of the week.

*Zhong* Qi-Iao (sinjoric^o/Mr.)

Matthew Rosenblatt

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Nov 9, 1992, 10:12:22 AM11/9/92

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In article <peeters.720743176@tasman> pee...@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au
(bert peeters) writes:

>Saturday = SAMBATUM DIES
. . .
>And if you didn't know where the "sabbath" comes from, look at the word
>for Saturday. [Bert Peeters]

Where'd the "M" disappear to? Where'd the second "b" come from?
How about the "th" at the end of "sabbath"?

Cassell's Latin-English Dictionary has two "b's" and no "M." Liddell
and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon has, "ton sabbaton," with irregular
dative plural "sabbasi." "Ton sabbaton" is the usage in the Greek
Septuagint Bible, as well as in the Greek New Testament.

As for the "th" at the end, I always thought that it came from the
Hebrew Bible, where the word "shabbath" ends with a Hebrew letter
that English usually transliterates as "th." The letter for "sh"
didn't make it through Greek and Latin; "s" was substituted instead.
Hence, "sabbath."

-- Matt Rosenblatt
(ma...@amsaa.brl.mil)

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Bohdan Rekshynskyj

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Nov 10, 1992, 3:42:27 PM11/10/92

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Salve!

Actually another way of displaying the days would be using the "IDES, NONES, & KALENDS" system.
Eg, today, November 10th is "Hodie est a.d. IV Idus Novembres". The case endings are probably wrong
and should be ablative (of time), but I haven't had a realiable text to search for it (I've written
a program which displays the date in Latin everytime I logon). Oh, the a.d. is "ante diem".

Vale!

Bohdan(vs)

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