Other forms: tuesdays
Tuesday is the second day of the working week. On Tuesday, Tuesday morning, every Tuesday.
It is reckoned the most productive day of the week in most surveys, after Monday's slow start and before the middle sags. Shrove Tuesday is the day before Lent begins. Note that it is named after Tiw, a Germanic god of war and law, which is why the French mardi points at Mars instead.
1nountuesdayThe day between Monday and Wednesday.
“The bins are collected every Tuesday, so put them out the night before.”
tuesday is a day of the week.
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰegʷʰ-
Proto-West Germanic
*Tīwas dag — Tuesday
Old English
tīwesdæġ — Tuesday
Middle English
Tewesday
English
Tuesday
English, today
tuesday
Tuesday comes from Middle English Tewesday, from Old English tīwesdæġ (“Tuesday”), from Proto-West Germanic Tīwas dag (“Tuesday”) literally “Tiw's Day”. This was a Germanic interpretation of Latin diēs Mārtis, itself a translation of Ancient Greek Ἄρεως ἡμέρα (interpretatio romana). Cognate with Scots Tysday (“Tuesday”), stq Täisdai (“Tuesday”), West Frisian tiisdei (“Tuesday”), dialectal {{cog|de|
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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