#DAMMIT IN JAPANESE ISO#

The Germanic peoples adapted the system introduced by the Romans by substituting the Germanic deities for the Roman ones (with the exception of Saturday) in a process known as interpretatio germanica.

French dimanche, lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi. With the exception of sabato, the Esperanto names are all from French, cf. Several constructed languages also adopted the Latin terminology. Other languages adopted the week together with the Latin (Romance) names for the days of the week in the colonial period. DayĮarly Old Irish 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.Īlbanian 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. Mirandese and Modern Portuguese use numbered weekdays (see below), but retain sábado and demingo/ domingo for weekends. 'the Lord's Day', and of Saturday, which was named for the Sabbath. The Greek and Latin names are as follows:Įxcept for Modern Portuguese and Mirandese, the Romance languages preserved the Latin names, except for the names of Sunday, which was replaced by Dominicus (Dominica), i.e. The seven-day week spread throughout the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity.īy the 4th century, it was in wide use throughout the Empire. 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 Ptolemaic system of planetary spheres asserts that the order of the heavenly bodies, from the farthest to the closest to the Earth is: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, or, objectively, the planets are ordered from slowest to fastest moving as they appear in the night sky. (The treatise is lost, but the answer to the question is known see planetary hours). Īnother early witness is a reference to a lost treatise by Plutarch, 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 earliest evidence for this new system is a Pompeiian graffito referring to 6 February ( ante diem viii idus Februarias) of the year AD 60 as dies solis ('Sunday').

#DAMMIT IN JAPANESE ISO#

In the international standard ISO 8601, Monday is treated as the first day of the week.įurther information: Week and Planetary hoursīetween the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, the Roman Empire gradually replaced the eight-day Roman nundinal cycle with the seven-day week. Emperor Constantine adopted the seven-day week for official use in AD 321, making the Day of the Sun ( dies Solis) a legal holiday. Sunday remained the first day of the week, being considered the Lord's Day, while the Jewish sabbath remained the seventh. The seven-day week was adopted in early Christianity from the Hebrew calendar, and gradually replaced the Roman nundinal cycle as the new religion spread. In some other languages, the days are named after corresponding deities of the regional culture, beginning either with Sunday or with Monday. In many languages, the names given to the seven days of the week 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 Late Antiquity. Heptagram of the seven celestial bodies of the week

Dammit in japanese