Other forms: saturdays
Saturday is the first day of the weekend. Saturday morning, on Saturday, a Saturday job.
It carries most of the week's shopping, sport and social life, and it is the busiest retail day almost everywhere. In Judaism it is the Sabbath. Note that Saturday is the only English weekday named after a Roman god rather than a Norse one — Saturn kept his day where the others were replaced.
1nounsaturdayThe day between Friday and Sunday.
“On Saturday morning I sleep late and then go to the market.”
saturday is a day of the week.
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰegʷʰ-
Latin
diēs Saturnī
Proto-West Germanic
*Sāturnas dag
Old English
sæterdæġ
Middle English
Saterday
English
Saturday
English, today
saturday
Built from
Saturday comes from Middle English Saterday, from Old English sæterdæġ, earlier sæternesdæġ (“Saterday”) literally “Saturn's day”, from Proto-West Germanic Sāturnas dag; a translation of Latin diēs Saturnī, equivalent to Saturn + day. Compare West Frisian saterdei (“Saturday”), Dutch zaterdag (“Saturday”), German Low German Saterdag (“Saturday”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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