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.

Wednesday

Wednesday in other languages:


French: mercredi
Spanish: miercoles
Italian: mercoledi
German: Mittwoch (literally, midweek)
Latin: dies Mercurii


Romance languages are obviously named after Mercury.


English comes from Odin or Woden (Germanic god similar to Mercury).


German Mittwoch used to be Wodenstag.