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Nov 11, 2005 11:04
18 yrs ago
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English term
Sunday
English to Latin
Social Sciences
History
I just want to know what 'Sunday' is in Latin because I read that Constantine gave Sunday its name in approximately 331 AD. The person who wrote the article said that Sunday means 'day of the sun'. I am very curious about this because this implies it has been directly translated into English and passed down over centuries. I do believe Constantine would have used Latin as his language of communication. I am very curious. Thanks in advance.
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Nov 11, 2005 11:06: Elena Petelos changed "Language pair" from "Latin to English" to "English to Latin"
Nov 18, 2005 10:50: Kirill Semenov changed "Field" from "Other" to "Social Sciences" , "Field (specific)" from "Other" to "History"
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dies solis
The influence of the weeks of Chaldaeans, Christians, and Jews slowly made itself felt in the Roman Empire, and elements of the systems were probably merged. The planetary week was at first preeminent, and the use of planetary names, based on names of pagan deities, continued even after Constantine (c.321) made the Christian week, beginning on Sunday, official in the civil calendar. The Roman names for the days of the week pervaded Western Europe; in most languages the forms are translations from Latin or attempts to assign corresponding names of divinities. The Latin names, their translations, the English equivalents, and their derivations follow: dies solis [sun's day], Sunday; dies lunae [moon's day], Monday [moonday]; dies Martis [Mars' day], Tuesday [Tiw's day]; dies Mercurii [Mercury's day], Wednesday [Woden's day]; dies Jovis [Jove's or Jupiter's day], Thursday [Thor's day]; dies Veneris [Venus' day], Friday [Frigg's day]; and dies Saturni [Saturn's day], Saturday.
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