dies Mercurii

dies Mercurii

Latin

Etymology

From diēs (“day”) and Mercuriī, genitive of Mercurius (“Mercury”).Latin calque of Ancient Greek ἡμέρα (hēméra, “day”) Ἑρμοῦ (Hermoû) ("of Hermes"). The association of the seven week days with the seven classical planets is first attested in the Anthologiarum by Vettius Valens, ca. AD 170 and was known to Cassius Dio by the early 3rd century.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.eːs merˈku.ri.iː/, [ˈdi.eːs mɛrˈkʊ.ri.iː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.es merˈku.ri.i/, [ˈdiː.es merˈkuː.ri.i]

Noun

diēs Mercuriī f (genitive diēī Mercuriī); fifth declension

1. Wednesday

Declension

Fifth-declension noun with an indeclinable portion.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	diēs Mercuriī	diēs Mercuriī
Genitive	diēī Mercuriī	diērum Mercuriī
Dative	diēī Mercuriī	diēbus Mercuriī
Accusative	diem Mercuriī	diēs Mercuriī
Ablative	diē Mercuriī	diēbus Mercuriī
Vocative	diēs Mercuriī	diēs Mercuriī

Coordinate terms

• diēs hebdomadis
• diēs Dominica, diēs Dominicus, diēs Sōlis
• diēs Lūnae
• diēs Mārtis
• diēs Iovis
• diēs Veneris
• diēs Sabbatī, diēs Saturnī

Descendants

• Corsican: marcuri
• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: njercuri
  • Romanian: miercuri
• Emilian: mercordé
• Extremaduran: miércolis
• Franco-Provençal: mécredi, dimécro
• Italian: mercoledì
• Lombard: mercoldé
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: miércols
• Neapolitan: miercurì

  Tarantino: mercrudìe

• Old French: mercredi
  • Champenois: mécurdi, mécueurdi, mieurdi
  • French: mercredi
    • Haitian Creole: mèkredi
  • Norman: Mêcrédi, mercrédi, méquerdi, Mekrëdi, mekrëdi
  • Walloon: mierkidi, dimiek
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: miércoles
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: dimecres
  • Occitan: dimècres
• Old Portuguese: mercores
  • Galician: mércores
• Old Spanish:
  • Ladino: mierkoles
  • Spanish: miércoles (see there for further descendants)
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: miercus, miercui
  • Ladin: mercol
  • Romansch: marculdi, marcurdi
• Sardinian: mélcuris, mércuis, mérculis, mércuris, mèrcuris
• Sicilian: mèrcuri, mercuridìa, mièrcuri
• Venetian: mèrcore, mercoe, mercoli
• → Albanian: e mërkurë
• → Breton: dimerc’her
• → Cornish: de Merher
• → Germanic: *Wōdanas dagaz (calque) (see there for further descendants)
• → Welsh: dydd Mercher (calque)