dies Lunae

Latin

Days of the week

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Etymology

Calque of Ancient Greek ἡμέρᾱ Σελήνης (hēmérā Selḗnēs); from diēs (“day”) and Lūnae, genitive of Lūna (“the Moon”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdi.eːs ˈɫuː.nae̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.es ˈluː.ne]

Noun

diēs Lūnae f (genitive diēī Lūnae); fifth declension

1. Monday

Declension

Fifth-declension noun with an indeclinable portion.

	singular	plural
nominative	diēs Lūnae	diēs Lūnae
genitive	diēī Lūnae	diērum Lūnae
dative	diēī Lūnae	diēbus Lūnae
accusative	diem Lūnae	diēs Lūnae
ablative	diē Lūnae	diēbus Lūnae
vocative	diēs Lūnae	diēs Lūnae

Coordinate terms

• days of the week: hebdomadis diēs (appendix): fēria secunda/diēs Lūnae · fēria tertia/diēs Mārtis · fēria quārta/diēs Mercuriī · fēria quīnta/diēs Iovis · fēria sexta/diēs Veneris · sabbatum/diēs Sāturnī · dominica/diēs Sōlis ^[edit]

Descendants

From diēs Lūnae:

• Franco-Provençal: delon
• Walloon: dilon
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: dilluns
  • Occitan: diluns
• → Breton: dilun

From Lūnae dīēs:

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: luni
  • Romanian: luni
• Franco-Provençal: londi
• Gallo-Italic
  • Emilian: lonedé
  • Lombard: lönesdé
  • Piedmontese: lùnes
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: luni
  • Dalmatian: loine
  • Italian: lunedì
  • Neapolitan: lunnerì

    Tarantino: lunedìe

  • Sicilian: luni, lunnidì, luneddì, lunidìa
• Old French: lundi
  • Gallo: lundi
  • French: lundi, lundy, Lundy
    • Saint Dominican Creole French: lindy
      • Haitian Creole: lendi
    • Louisiana Creole: lundi, lindi
    • Mauritian Creole: lindi
  • Norman:

    Continental: leundi

    Guernsey: lundi, làndi

    Jersey: Lundi

    Sark: lũdi

  • Walloon: londi
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: lunis
  • Ladin: lunesc
  • Romansh: lündeschdi, glindesdi, glindasde, gliendisdis, gliendasgis
• Sardinian: lunis
• Venetan: luni
• West Iberian
  • Aragonese: lunes, luns, lluns, llunes
  • Old Leonese: lunes
    • Asturian: llunes
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: lũes
    • Galician: luns
  • Old Spanish:
    • Ladino: lunes
    • Spanish: lunes (see there for further descendants)

Calques

• Albanian: e hënë
• Proto-West Germanic: *mānini dag (see there for further descendants)
• Middle Irish: día lúain (partial)
  • Irish: Dé Luain
  • Scottish Gaelic: Diluain
  • Manx: Jelhein
• Welsh: dydd Llun (partial)
• Cornish: de Lun, dy'Lun (partial)