Days of the Week

So we now finish up the days of the week, and the one thing I want you to take away from the past week is the Latin names for the days of the week. The moment calendar used today (the Gregorian Calendar) was a revision of the Julian Calendar which was based on the old Roman calendar. What this calendar gave us was the 7-day week. And the ancient Romans also thought that there were 7 celestial bodies orbiting around the Earth: the Moon, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, which also happen to be what the Romans named the days of the week after.

Friday

Friday, the best day of the week, if you ask me.


Let's see what Friday is in other languages.


French: Vendredi
Italian: Venerdi
Spanish: viernes
German: Freitag
Latin: dies Veneris


All the Romance translations are based on the Latin which translates to "day of Venus". What is the Germanic equivalent of Venus? Frigg (or Friya), the wife of Odin, who was also the goddess of love.