Days of the Week

The seven days of the week, their planetary and Germanic name origins, and their ISO 8601 numbers. 7 entries.

Sunday is named after the Sun, following the Hellenistic planetary week, which assigned days to the seven classical planets...

Monday is the Moon's day, a translation of the Latin dies Lunae, which also gives French lundi and Spanish lunes. ISO 8601 makes...

Tuesday is named after Tiw, the Germanic sky and war god, who was equated with the Roman Mars of dies Martis, the source of...

Wednesday is Woden's day, after the chief Germanic god Woden or Odin, who was matched with Mercury, the Roman dies Mercurii and...

Thursday is Thor's day, the Germanic thunder god paired with Jupiter, as in Latin dies Iovis and French jeudi. In the ISO week...

Friday is named after the Germanic goddess Frigg or Freya, matched with Venus, as in Latin dies Veneris and French vendredi. It...

Saturday is the only English weekday that keeps a Roman name, from Saturn, dies Saturni. In many other languages its name comes...