Tuesday
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English Tewesday, from Old English tīwesdæġ (“Tuesday”), from Proto-West Germanic *Tīwas dag (“Tuesday”, literally “Tiw's Day”).
This was a Germanic interpretation of Latin diēs Mārtis, itself a translation of Ancient Greek Ἄρεως ἡμέρα (Áreōs hēméra) (interpretatio romana). Cognate with Scots Tysday (“Tuesday”), Saterland Frisian Täisdai (“Tuesday”), West Frisian tiisdei (“Tuesday”), dialectal German Ziestag (“Tuesday”), Danish tirsdag (“Tuesday”), Swedish tisdag (“Tuesday”), Finnish tiistai (“Tuesday”). More at Tyr, day.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation)
- (without the yod-coalescence) IPA(key): /ˈtjuːzdeɪ/, /ˈtjuːzdi/
- (yod-coalescence) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃuːzdeɪ/, /ˈt͡ʃuːzdi/
- (General American) enPR: to͞ozʹ-dā, -dē, tyo͞ozʹ-dā, -dē, IPA(key): /ˈtuzdeɪ/, /ˈtjuzdeɪ/, /ˈtuzdi/, /ˈtjuzdi/
- (New Zealand) enPR: cho͞ozʹdā, IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃʉːzdæe/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -uːzdɪ, -uːzdeɪ
- Hyphenation: Tues‧day
Noun
[edit]Tuesday (plural Tuesdays)
- The third day of the week in many religious traditions, and the second day of the week in systems that use the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Monday and precedes Wednesday.
- Synonym: (Quakerism) Third Day
- 1969 March 17 [1969 March 12], “Rural Districts' Occupation”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 51, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taipei CNA, →OCLC, Communist China: Southwest Region, page E 2:
- An anti-Mao force has occupied many rural districts around Tengchung in west Yunnan and is directing peasants there to revolt against Mao Tse-tung, intelligence sources here reported Tuesday.
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[edit]day of the week
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Adverb
[edit]Tuesday (not comparable)
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[edit]on Tuesday
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See also
[edit]- days of the week (appendix): Sunday · Monday · Tuesday · Wednesday · Thursday · Friday · Saturday [edit]
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[edit]Tuesday
- (Late Middle English, Surrey) alternative form of Tewesday
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